It looks cool, but I'm not paying the price of a console just for a gimicky controller just to play one game.

What's weird is that she has never said "nay" against the party. If she's not going to use informed opinion when drafting legislature then why the fuck is she even there?

It just plays your own voice back at you with a delay. My phone actually does this sometimes and I just cannot form a coherent sentence when it happens.

There's something called an age rating, but I guess he missed that too.

The key word is "can" (it already happens for consoles). Games on steam aren't made as steam games (not yet at least), they're made as PC games; this dictates that they have to be coded for for an intermediate format such as directX, OpenGL, java, etc; because it's infeasible to code for every single combination of…

It's likely to run a modified Linux distro. Since the hardware is standardised, there doesn't need to be a directX API, the game can be coded to work directly with the hardware. You can have any OS you want on it, just as long as you can install steam.

It's a standardised PC. That means devs can develop directly for that specific hardware config; which means that games are guaranteed to work on it. No guessing requirements, no messing around with drivers, no hardware fixes; you just put the game in the slot and it works, like a console.

It's an open format on standardised hardware. Since devs can develop directly for the hardware, you can have any operating system on it; no graphics API needed.

"I hope steam is ready to pay a steep premium to get a windows based OS on their, cause i dont think building a complete console OS is up their alley"

No, you implied that valve has set the standard and everyone else has to buy all the bits and pieces for their existing PC. What the article implies is that Valve makes and sells an entire complete unit just like Sony or MS do with consoles. The only difference is that under the hood, it's actual PC standard hardware…

They would if the console used the directX API. But that's the beauty of standardised hardware, it doesn't need an API, the game can just be coded to run directly from the hardware since it's always the same hardware.

BZZZZT!

Except they don't use the OS, just the graphics API.

Not "for your PC", it IS the PC. It's just clothed, sold and used as a console.

THIS!

In realistic terms, the only real advantage the i7 has over the i5 is more cores (real and virtual). Most games don't use that many cores, so there's no real advantage. An i7 offers no real speed advantage over an i5 in games.

Like a lot of people you seem to be confused. Effectively this IS a gaming rig. It plays PC games.

You wouldn't even need display options, if the hardware is standardised it will run the same on all of them. In theory a dev could add code to the PC game to automatically detect the console and automatically put it in console mode with the graphics optimized accordingly. the same applies to to the installation, since…

"And will my completely suitable PC still be able to play the games developed for this device, or am I going to need to separate my gaming and work machines?"

Well here's the thing, my boss is gay, several of my colleagues are gay, some of my friends are gay, some of the people I went to school with are gay. Do they make a big deal out of their sexuality? No. Do I make a big deal out of their sexuality? No. Do other people make a big deal out of their sexuality? Not that I…