http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamOS/ http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/ More details at the (first) link. It seems this is the first of 3 announcements for them this week. The next will apparently be revealed in ~48 hours.
Maybe Steam can fix the stupid Bootstrapper client issue that many users have so that I can actually play online and download games through Steam. That's the announcement, I'm looking for.
Don't think so. I hadn't even really followed the buzz with Valve on this. I knew to expect something today, but wasn't really following the speculation. Steambox has always been talked about (for years it seems now), though SteamOS is somewhat new (though think there has been some speculation about it for a while...though usually it was "Valve launching Steambox with Ubuntu OS" or something).
Ideally more stability, more security, less cost (it's free, windows and mac os are not), etc etc. I for one hope this is successful, I'm sick of microsoft and their business practices (I've worked in IT for quite some time, and been a PC/console gamer for much longer).
Well...now I'm a little freaked out. Lol Oh well; this is certainly interesting. I'm curious how this impacts next gen.
No. Think they scrapped the episodic content idea/model. Possibly part of Half Life 3...if that is ever released. Some hints here and there about it, but who knows. Seclusion nailed it. It is likely they'll put out a "Steambox", and this is likely the OS they'll use. Might as well offer it to all (they only care about getting people to use Steam). With the streaming, they could conceivably put out a cheap dongle/box (Chromecast/Vita TV) that will stream games to the big TV. Over time, there might be some improvements made to performance in games, though I'd be pretty skeptical about that as long as developers treat a Linux port as an afterthought (though at least they're thinking about it now!). I think this is just part of their overall plan, and might get a better picture of things after they're done revealing everything. I think the G-Man is involved somehow... And yeah, I'm curious to see how this impacts next-gen as well. Don't want to speculate too much until we actually know more about what Valve is up to, but they could definitely disrupt things a bit.
I would be cool with a Team Fortress 3 announcement (although I have no idea how in the world they could out do TF2).
I haven't followed it too closely. There was some JIRA leak of projects at Valve a while back, and while there was HL3 and L4D3 I believe, I don't recall TF3 (not that I'd put a lot of stock in that info, assuming it was even real). Them seem content with just updating TF2 for now from what I can tell.
Steam Machines: http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamMachines/ Not a lot of info. Implies input (Steam controller?) might be the last announcement though.
And now Valve has announced their Steam Controller. Dual trackpads. Haptics. A touch screen. http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamController/ Image of controller prototype: http://media.steampowered.com/steam/store/livingroom/controller/SteamController.jpg Holy crap. It's quite different.
