Valve Unveils the First-Gen Steam Machines

Published on January 8, 2014 By Island Dog In PC Gaming

Valve has released more info and partner information on the first-gen Steam Machines at CES this week.

“Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Counter-Strike, Dota 2, Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, Portal, and Team Fortress) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced over one dozen Steam Machine designs now in production from leading manufacturers and targeted for release in 2014.

The lineup of Steam Machines announced today offers a wide variety of price and performance options made possible by the Steam Machine’s open design, with systems starting as low as $499 and top end systems rivaling today’s bleeding edge gaming PCs.

Every Steam Machine includes an innovative Steam Controller designed for use with a wide variety of game genres, and is powered by the SteamOS, a custom OS built atop Linux.”

The companies who will be creating Steam Machines are:

Alienware
Alternate
CyberPowerPC
Digital Storm
Falcon NW
GigaByte
iBuyPower
Maingear
Materiel.net
Next Spa
Origin PC
Scan
Webhallen
Zotac

What are your thoughts on these Steam Machines? Do you plan on buying one, or maybe building your own?

Comments (Page 4)

Space Voyager

on Jun 03, 2014

IMO every competition is good for the consumer. Steam brings competition both in terms of hardware and OS and both are very welcome. If Steam box will let me use it as a regular PC, I might even go for it...

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