Valve announces Steam OS, Steam Machines, and Steam Controller

T-hug · Sep 23, 2013

Steam has announced its very own operating system; Steam OS, Steam Machines and Steam Controller:

Steam OS:

As we’ve been working on bringing Steam to the living room, we’ve come to the conclusion that the environment best suited to delivering value to customers is an operating system built around Steam itself. Steam OS combines the rock-solid architecture of Linux with a gaming experience built for the big screen.It will be available soon as a free stand-alone operating system for living room machines.

Steam Machines:

Entertainment is not a one-size-fits-all world. We want you to be able to choose the hardware that makes sense for you, so we are working with multiple partners to bring a variety of Steam gaming machines to market during 2014, all of them running SteamOS.

Steam Controller:

We realized early on that our goals required a new kind of input technology — one that could bridge the gap from the desk to the living room without compromises. So we spent a year experimenting with new approaches to input and we now believe we've arrived at something worth sharing and testing with you.

Steam OS Source
Steam Machines Source

Steam Controller

Tom Bombadildo · Sep 23, 2013

I kind of like it. It says you can stream games from an existing gaming PC to another PC, so this may be nice for those who don't want to have to lug their gaming PC between rooms to play on a big screen. I know I would totally use this with my craptop, so there's a market out there...just not a very big one. Meh, we'll have to see what happens I suppose

IBNobody · Sep 23, 2013

And FAMILY SHARING !!!

Family Sharing
In the past, sharing Steam games with your family members was hard. Now you can share the games you love with the people you love. Family Sharing allows you to take turns playing one another’s games while earning your own Steam achievements and saving your individual game progress to the Steam cloud.

Ace Overclocked · Sep 23, 2013

http://store.steampowered.com/sharing <You guys should sign up for the gamesharing beta!

Deleted member 473940 · Sep 23, 2013

Saw that coming. Damn I should be the next sherlock Holmes

T-hug · Sep 23, 2013

ShawnTRods said:
Saw that coming. Damn I should be the next sherlock Holmes

Yeah I'm guessing announcement #2 will be the steambox and #3 will be Friday and be Half Life 3 / Left 4 Dead 3 / Portal 3?
The OS is big news, the steambox will be big news, but what could be the biggest news saved for #3?

IBNobody · Sep 23, 2013

Bummer!

There's a Change.org petition against this, too.

https://www.change.org/petitions/va...access-different-games-at-the-same-time#share

DinohScene · Sep 23, 2013

No HL 3?

Also, this will prolly be the next Android.

Gahars · Sep 23, 2013

SteamOS?

More like SteamOP.

bowser · Sep 23, 2013

If they don't announce Half-Life 3 by this weekend, I'm gonna be steamed.

chrisrlink · Sep 23, 2013

so is steam OS built for PC? too bad i cant change windows 8 to this on fy family's desktop ( they'll be pissed)

WiiUBricker · Sep 23, 2013

chrisrlink said:
so is steam OS built for PC?

SteamOS is linux, so yes, you can install it on a PC.

PityOnU · Sep 23, 2013

While this is neat, I'm not seeing how it's exactly groundbreaking...

Yet another Linux distro? I mean, that's fine, but it doesn't really change too much.

Just install Steam on another Linux distro?

EyeZ · Sep 23, 2013

Not too sure if this will suit my needs, i'll be taking notice of further news but i can't see why i would want to pay out for a Steam box with a Steam OS when what i have now suits me.

Also, this is being targeted towards living room gaming, which is not what i'm looking for.

Deleted member 473940 · Sep 23, 2013

Thug said:
Yeah I'm guessing announcement #2 will be the steambox and #3 will be Friday and be Half Life 3 / Left 4 Dead 3 / Portal 3?
The OS is big news, the steambox will be big news, but what could be the biggest news saved for #3?

lol Cant really tell anything else.
But I was a gazillion percent sure that an OS is coming. That would be more convenient for people who dont buy the steambox. I know Windows has steam, but a OS specifically for gaming.. sounds amazing, doesnt it?
Now, I am thinking whether there will be a steambox announcement or not? Lets see.

Sakitoshi · Sep 23, 2013

ShawnTRods said:
lol Cant really tell anything else.
But I was a gazillion percent sure that an OS is coming. That would be more convenient for people who dont buy the steambox. I know Windows has steam, but a OS specifically for gaming.. sounds amazing, doesnt it?
Now, I am thinking whether there will be a steambox announcement or not? Lets see.

if boot as fast as a game console, then that could be my 2nd boot on my laptop.
I was also like 90% sure a dedicated OS was to be expected if they want a console experience for the SteamBox, since not all Steam games have gamepad support they'll have to work on that and you can't use Windows at all just with a gamepad.

Ritsuki · Sep 23, 2013

Interesting. They should make an all entertainment (not only video games, but music and videos too) OS, that would be awesome

Tom Bombadildo · Sep 23, 2013

Ritsuki said:
Interesting. They should make an all entertainment (not only video games, but music and videos too) OS, that would be awesome

They're planning on bringing media services to the SteamOS.

Music, TV, Movies
We’re working with many of the media services you know and love. Soon we will begin bringing them online, allowing you to access your favorite music and video with Steam and SteamOS.

Ritsuki · Sep 23, 2013

Tom Bombadildo said:
They're planning on bringing media services to the SteamOS.

Well, time to build a multimedia PC then

Honestly that's the only reason I needed to build one

Tom Bombadildo · Sep 23, 2013

Ritsuki said:
Well, time to build a multimedia PC then Honestly that's the only reason I needed to build one

Well if the SteamOS is built on Linux, you could always just install XBMC or something, it's not like the thing will be locked down for gaming only.

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