Check-In CES: Steam Box Revolution
Gaming consoles built around Valve’s SteamOS
CES 2014 will be the coming-out party for Steam Machines, a lineup of gaming consoles built around Valve’s SteamOS. Unlike Sony’s PlayStation 4 or Microsoft’s Xbox One, Valve is opening up hardware development to a number of partners building and selling their own Steam Machines. The common thread will be the SteamOS, which is designed specifically to run Valve’s cloud-based DRM gaming software. Early models are priced in the $499 range to put it on par with the Xbox One, but there is nothing to stop PC manufacturers from creating tiers of Steam Machines with increasing capabilities and price tags to match.
The benefits to the Steam Machine over its competition are its direct access to the massive Steam gaming library and the ability to customize and upgrade the console to meet the needs of increasingly demanding games.
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