I've been waiting on this for sometime now
http://kotaku.com/5941793/valve-is-bringing-steam-to-your-tv-today-watch-out-consoles
http://kotaku.com/5941793/valve-is-bringing-steam-to-your-tv-today-watch-out-consoles
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I'd love to see this on my big screen TV but I don't have a very good setup for KBM in my living room right now. Maybe one day . . .
A still customizable small box PC with wireless controller or keyboard/mouse, with "Big Picture" Steam UI and still powerful enough to play the latest games out there without spending hundreds or thousand-plus for a dedicated gaming PC, might actually work."What we really want is to ship [Big Picture mode] and then learn," Coomer said. "So we want to find out what people value about that. How they make use of it. When they make use of it. Whether it's even a good idea for the broadest set of customers or not. And then decide what to do next.
"So it could be that the thing that really makes sense is to build the box that you're describing. But we really don't have a road map. And we think we're going to learn a tremendous amount through this first release."
My next wish is that they allow multiple logins under the same account. It's annoying to have to disconnect the living room computer from Steam so that my main gaming desktop updates, etc. This problem grows when you add a laptop to the mix. Syncing 3-4 pc's steam libraries has become a chore.
2. Game patches/updates/support. (Hopefully) no more of this online pass nonsense.
I'm a little confused. What's the difference between this and what we've always been able to do by using a TV as a computer monitor and then just launching Steam?
I'm a little confused. What's the difference between this and what we've always been able to do by using a TV as a computer monitor and then just launching Steam?
Man, if they could do a streaming box (ala Slingbox) from your PC somewhere else in your house...this would be the perfect solution. The box would have USB inputs that also are streamed to the PC somewhere else, but I don't know how difficult that would be to make. I would think latency would be a problem.
Is this out yet? Or is it still on valve time?
You can with an Apple TV and using something like AirFoil but as you said, latency and IQ are issues. I tried it with minecraft and while it worked okay, it wasn't acceptable to me.
They do have the wireless GPU's that would probably work pretty good.
The UI and control of the UI are designed for TV's and console controllers. No need for a keyboard or mouse.
HDMI over Cat 6 is also an option if you are looking to hook your main gaming machine up to the living room receiver.
Played around with it a little - this is pretty much exactly what you need for Windows 8 since it no longer has Game Explorer.
Just use this (or normal grid view) and have all of your games displayed on Steam using the zillions of pre-made custom made Steam grid images.
Interface-wise, it's actually really really similar to Windows Media Center and/or the Netflix app.
Kind of neat, especially for Win8, but not really all that big of deal for Win7...yet.
Ah, so you were the one user that used game explorer...
It's ok, but theres still a few annoyances:
- First of all on the default steam the big picture icon is ugly. (though I suppose that makes you want to use it to make it dissapear)
- Then when you play the games, steps like installations need a mouse, so you need to use those anyway. (though theres not much they can do to fix this)
- Theen the controller text entry has no ! or ' (but it does have smiley and sad faces).
- For some reason it auto signed me in to friends.
- It seems to relies on the rubbish xbox controller, exclusively.