03-11-2015, 07:28 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-11-2015, 07:30 AM by SteelCrysis.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWaG9hOvNn0
John Vert gives a shocking presentation. Talk about no try before you buy. Making installing it yourself easy, or making it a good desktop OS aren't goals either. Though he indicates that they want to improve the desktop experience later.
And if Valve is really aiming for the living room, it's too late. 8th gen consoles have had their prices cut to below the Steam Machines, Nvidia has undercut them all with the SHIELD console, and getting a PC into the living room isn't going to work. Just look at HTPCs. They're perceived as too big and expensive for the living room, so what gets bought instead? A bunch of cheap, smaller things that in total can do what the HTPC does. And what's Steam Link? A cheap, small thing that does something Steam Machines do, which is stream games. See the pattern?
Oh, and at 23:50, that gift of a free subscription to all Steam games is fucking scandalous. People spend a ton of money on their Steam libraries and the Debian devs get all Steam games for Linux now and in the future for free!? Wait, could this after-the-fact-almost-a-bribe be how Steam became dominant?
Plus it's fucking hilarious to see him whining about how they intend to counter the open, non-dependent-on-app-stores Windows and Mac OS X platforms with the identical platform that is SteamOS. According to him later on, Valve is weighing up how far they want to go in letting people install their own packages. With this level of delirious behavior and his dizzy grin, I think John Vert should be called John Vertigo.
John Vert gives a shocking presentation. Talk about no try before you buy. Making installing it yourself easy, or making it a good desktop OS aren't goals either. Though he indicates that they want to improve the desktop experience later.
And if Valve is really aiming for the living room, it's too late. 8th gen consoles have had their prices cut to below the Steam Machines, Nvidia has undercut them all with the SHIELD console, and getting a PC into the living room isn't going to work. Just look at HTPCs. They're perceived as too big and expensive for the living room, so what gets bought instead? A bunch of cheap, smaller things that in total can do what the HTPC does. And what's Steam Link? A cheap, small thing that does something Steam Machines do, which is stream games. See the pattern?
Oh, and at 23:50, that gift of a free subscription to all Steam games is fucking scandalous. People spend a ton of money on their Steam libraries and the Debian devs get all Steam games for Linux now and in the future for free!? Wait, could this after-the-fact-almost-a-bribe be how Steam became dominant?
Plus it's fucking hilarious to see him whining about how they intend to counter the open, non-dependent-on-app-stores Windows and Mac OS X platforms with the identical platform that is SteamOS. According to him later on, Valve is weighing up how far they want to go in letting people install their own packages. With this level of delirious behavior and his dizzy grin, I think John Vert should be called John Vertigo.