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Originally Posted by mestevo |
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My hopes from this set of announcements... another vision of NVIDIA's Shield product.
Steam hardware meant to act as a streamer to any TV in the household that has a dongle attached to it. Buy more dongles, you are streaming your PC to any TV in the house (see also: Chromecast, Vita TV). Press a button on a supported controller (including PS4, which would be great for this use w/ it's mousepad-like touchpad) any sync to the nearest dongle (traditional syncing also possible of course). Supported video cards could do this now, just need to buy the dongle, but Valve with this initial volley will have some bundles/packs supplied by hardware partners to help people get going with this solution.
Break this technology into 3 parts... hardware, dongle, and an enhancement to Steam further supporting big picture mode and you have the 3 pending announcements for next week. If they go further with the hardware then maybe the announcement could be controller, console, and dongle.
PC gaming isn't dying, neither is console gaming (and neither are killing each other, their mutual threat is mobile eroding market share and ROI) so the answer is to combine forces w/ consoles and own the living room. They'll both always be around to a degree, so any path that tries to pretend that it is dominant and anything other than complimentary is a mistake IMO.
I had some of this explained better in my head but much of it didn't come out as clear as I wanted, hopefully I made my point well enough.
Oh, and if it's anything other than this... well I've got a PC gaming rig, and it's hard to see them bringing out a product with the compatibility of windows (since it's expected to be linux-based) and at a price attractive enough to enthusiasts to run high end games. I'd be interested in something like the above solution I described. Some linux-based gaming OS? Not so much.
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I would like a Steam Dongle type thing that transmits my game to another tv....
Be cool to play in different rooms with relatively no lag. I'd even set up wireless controllers somehow if that helped.
When is the reveal today?