Valve Partners With GameStop, EB Games, And GAME UK For Steam Section In Stores

[heirdeux]

GameStop, EB Games, and GAME UK will all have a Steam section in their many stores for customers to check out the Steam Controller, Link, and Machines.

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[josejones]

Looking good. I'd certainly consider one of these after all the issues with PS4 and especially the XBox One. Now, all they need is support for NVMe SSD/M.2 and HDMI 2.0 and DisplayPort 1.3

 

[turkey3_scratch]

Go Steam! Hopefully developers will start developing more and more games for Linux, even AAA games.

 

[jimmysmitty]

[quotemsg=16735846,0,421409]Looking good. I'd certainly consider one of these after all the issues with PS4 and especially the XBox One. Now, all they need is support for NVMe SSD/M.2 and HDMI 2.0 and DisplayPort 1.3 [/quotemsg]

Remember you can easily make your own Steam Machine, the OS is free. So you can make it support whatever you want.

I am a bit worried though. Hopefully it works out and is not a waste of money. Most people who go to these places tend to normally be console gamers.

It would be great if this pushed PC gaming back into the mainstream eye. I hate seeing barely a single sided shelf dedicated to PC games when there are so many more. Then again that is what Steam is for.

 

[turkey3_scratch]

[quotemsg=16735994,0,149725][quotemsg=16735846,0,421409]Looking good. I'd certainly consider one of these after all the issues with PS4 and especially the XBox One. Now, all they need is support for NVMe SSD/M.2 and HDMI 2.0 and DisplayPort 1.3 [/quotemsg]

Remember you can easily make your own Steam Machine, the OS is free. So you can make it support whatever you want.

I am a bit worried though. Hopefully it works out and is not a waste of money. Most people who go to these places tend to normally be console gamers.

It would be great if this pushed PC gaming back into the mainstream eye. I hate seeing barely a single sided shelf dedicated to PC games when there are so many more. Then again that is what Steam is for.[/quotemsg]

Most people download PC games anymore, rarely do they buy the disks. Though personally, I always prefer a CD-ROM if available.

 

[alextheblue]

Steam is yucky on a mechanical HDD, especially when a bunch of big game updates seem to roll in at once. I have watched it thrash the heck out of a HDD while patching games very slowly, and I don't ever want that again. Do these support a standby + automatic updates mode like the current consoles? Otherwise I pity anyone buying one of these prebuilts... better to build your own and use an SSD. Even a cheap SSD would be worlds better.

 

[ninjustin]

If anyone considers the lowest price Alienware machine I recommend adding another 4gb of ram. A SSD is nice too but the ram will let you run any current game out there. The specs are the same as the current Alienware Alpha.

 

[ZippyPeanut]

Steam Machines: the story that won’t go away. The only story about Steam Machines that is newsworthy is the following:

“Gabe Newell’s ongoing anger at Microsoft and Windows continues to motivate him to push forward on the lame-brained Linux-based Steam Machines. Not since Howard Hughes’s H-1 Hercules has there been such a monumental boondoggle. We now know why so much effort was put into excavating all the Atari E.T. cartridges in Alamogordo, New Mexico: to make room for all the Steam Machines.”


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[jaber2]

I keep on wonder why, why would you run games that are not console on a PC that looks like console what is the appeal here? or is this for people who don't know what PC's can do, a sucker is born every day, "hey look ma, I bought a console that plays PC games, ain't that neet."