Valve Announces Steambox, Sort Of

wbr1 writes "A new page has appeared over at Steam with this slightly cryptic text, a countdown, and an image of a console controller. 'Last year, we shipped a software feature called Big Picture, a user-interface tailored for televisions and gamepads. This year we've been working on even more ways to connect the dots for customers who want Steam in the living-room. Soon, we'll be adding you to our design process, so that you can help us shape the future of Steam.' It appears Gabe Newell wants to throw his hat in the console ring now with the Xbox One and PS4 about to be released. The countdown to the announcement is targeted at Monday."

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Re:They've got a good shot at it

[hairyfeet]

But Linux is a BAD IDEA as all consoles HAVE TO HAVE DRM or you won't get the major players on board and that means the "FOSSie Faction" as I call them will be up in arms and maybe even some lawsuits over GPL violations.

A MUCH better choice would be to do what Sony did and use BSD, that way they can still have the DRM required while sharing the non DRM bits, just as Apple shares the low level stuff but doesn't share their GUI. If they go Linux and DRM free they can say goodbye to Activision, EA, and ubisoft and that would be the kiss of death. After all who is gonna buy a Steambox that only plays indie titles when you can get one of those little Android consoles for $100 that will do the same?