http://www.steamboymachine.com/
I find it interesting to say the lest, but I have no idea how this would compare to say Nvidia Shield. Over all they seem like completely different products that serve a similar purpose. I'm just curious on what you fellas have to say about it.
http://www.pcgamer.com/steamboy-or-smach-zero-is-a-portable-handheld-steam-machine/
Well if it's running on x86 opposed to ARM, its just means that there will be more compatability for software. We won't be limited by nVidia's proprietary stream software either. If it can run some games natively that are not too intensive for extended periods of time, then I say it will be a hell of a handheld. Perhaps we can look forward to some competition between this and Nintendo's 3DS. I would like to see the 3DS pushing 720P games.
I guess since NVIDIA killed all the Shield Tablets they won't have any competition. Now, I haven't tried the new touch-pad analog sticks but I'm not a fan from what I've seen. Could be an interesting device though.
it has a bigger library than the vita, i can tell you that
- Unsatisfied vita owner
Holy crap I think I died and gone to heaven. This is amazing!
A friend of mine picked up a VITA and was super excited about it. He used it maybe twice, it's a paperweight now. Glad he was unsuccessful in his attempts to convince me to get one.
it was such a promising handheld. luckily i had picked a 3ds at the same time, at least that one is still delivering awesome games even if it plays at 480p
I want one. I have something like 200 games in my Steam Library (thank god that PC gaming is so cheap on the software side, I have 4, maybe 5 3DS games), probably 20-40 of which would be great titles to just have in my pocket whilst out and about.
I think this more of a chance to be successful than the nvidia shield. This is probably going to run off of your steam account, and library. As long as your pc is on you can basically remote play any game in your library. It also looks less bulky than an nvidia shield, since it has more of a 'psp' shape.
Something like this is needed in the handheld market. But the bigger problem is if they think it will sell strictly because it can stream games they are dumb.
This needs to be running android not SteamOS. And Valve needs to stop being lazy and make a dedicate app on Android. They mentioned in the past they want to bring in Home streaming to other platforms but we've only seen it on the PC.
So let me get this straight. You can't load games onto it. It will only stream games from your PC?
You can install games on it, but if they use SteamOS you are limited to the linux library, and terrible proprietary drivers from AMD. I dont expect this APU to be amazing. But i think it will be good enough.
looks nice, uses the steam controller directional pad?
Fair enough. Still that's pretty cool.
It'd be better if they made it look like a pip boy
I'm sure our community has some skilled enough modders to make even a shell to house it that looks like this.
This is very true, while Steam does have an Android app it still is pretty much completely useless to actual Steam users.