I'm not going to ask you to list out every case this happened, and yes this would be unfortunate, but really how often do you see this being a problem?
Honestly now. This is not getting in the water because one time you heard about a kid who peed in it.
Because you refuse (through ignorance or stubbornness) to see this as something other people can get excited for, and thus, feel the need to ask some question that you think will blow the lid off this entire project.
Right now there is someone at Valve who read your comment and is going "Oh shit that's right! We put literally no thought into this! Pull it! Pull it!"
Why would a Steam Machine be so vastly underpowered it couldn't outlive a comparable console? A mid-range machine will last you a good 5-7 years of decent gaming, even more if you want to keep playing the same games.
With a console, when it's EOL hits, you get NO more games. There will be no PS4 game that comes out that is real simple in graphics/design and can run on your PS3 - it's just a straight up end of life for your games.
With a Steam Machine you may not be able to play the newest AAA games, but you can play all the games you once enjoyed, and if the game isn't too demanding, you might be able to still play brand-new games.
Pixar movies aren't movies for children so much as they are tests of humanity.
Find me someone who didn't feel moved or sad or human during the first 10 minutes of Up and I will show you the first contact we've made with an alien race.
The reason you can do so well in racing is: Burnout Paradise (while one of my favorite racing games) is pretty friggin' liberal with it's steering and sliding. That's part of the fun of it all.
Try to race in Grid 2, or Forza, or F1, or any game that has a slightly less arcade-tuned engine, and suddenly the loss of analogue brake/gas/steering is a death sentence.
M&KB is great, I was raised on it, I will die by it.
M&KB is not great for: Driving. Slowly moving.
In both those cases having an analogue stick to slowly creep you around is a lot better than tapping wasd lightly, and in the case of driving, not having analogue brake/gas/steering is really... just not fun.
There is no comfortable way to sit on a couch and use M&KB in the same way you use them at your desk, it sucks, but just claiming that M&KB will fix all the woes of console gaming is simplifying things a little too much.
Do you not have sex unless it lasts for 10+ hours?
You can have fun, enjoyable, fulfilling experiences in any number of minutes. Arbitrarily passing a game off as "not worth your time" just because it can be finished in a day (hell maybe even a full long sitting!!!!) is... strange.
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Anonymous Coward calling people fat and their products gay-as-hell.
I'm shocked you didn't want to log in to stand behind this idiocy.
Is this uh... really the only thing you're worried about?
Must be hard living at home nowadays.
WHOA that is some high-level conspiracy thinking there.
What does joining steam groups or adding friends do to further Valve's bottom line?
Fair enough, sorry for being a bit defensive but I've been (willingly, no excuses) reading a bunch of FUD/misinformation about these announcements.
I'm not going to ask you to list out every case this happened, and yes this would be unfortunate, but really how often do you see this being a problem?
Honestly now. This is not getting in the water because one time you heard about a kid who peed in it.
Because you refuse (through ignorance or stubbornness) to see this as something other people can get excited for, and thus, feel the need to ask some question that you think will blow the lid off this entire project.
Right now there is someone at Valve who read your comment and is going "Oh shit that's right! We put literally no thought into this! Pull it! Pull it!"
Wow why did I post this without reading the preview.
I deserve the special level of hell I'm going to be banished to for this.
Steam is an evil trojan horse piece of shit that will turn on all those legions of pathetic fanboys once market dominance is achieved.
Haha holy shit do they make those tinfoil hats in women's as well? I wanna pick up a few for the family.
Please throw more non-sourced attacks from behind an Anonymous Coward moniker, it really helps sell "crazy conspiracy theorist".
Anonymous coward claiming to play violent sexually charged video games with his 10 year old daughter. Yeah nothing I don't believe about this.
Full disclosure: GTAV is a blast.
Pixar movies aren't movies for children so much as they are tests of humanity.
Find me someone who didn't feel moved or sad or human during the first 10 minutes of Up and I will show you the first contact we've made with an alien race.
How could you just throw the "t" word around like that? My son was watching and now he won't stop talking about what t a i n t s are. THANKS.
Or one real GOOD hooker!
Ugh I WISH I had this self-restraint. :( I'll be buying both.
The 'sheeple' all [...]
Really? Sheeple?
Is this the argument you really wanted to make here? Or better yet, is this the best argument you can come up with?
The reason you can do so well in racing is: Burnout Paradise (while one of my favorite racing games) is pretty friggin' liberal with it's steering and sliding. That's part of the fun of it all.
Try to race in Grid 2, or Forza, or F1, or any game that has a slightly less arcade-tuned engine, and suddenly the loss of analogue brake/gas/steering is a death sentence.
M&KB is great, I was raised on it, I will die by it.
M&KB is not great for: Driving. Slowly moving.
In both those cases having an analogue stick to slowly creep you around is a lot better than tapping wasd lightly, and in the case of driving, not having analogue brake/gas/steering is really... just not fun.
There is no comfortable way to sit on a couch and use M&KB in the same way you use them at your desk, it sucks, but just claiming that M&KB will fix all the woes of console gaming is simplifying things a little too much.
6 months. Just have to hold out for 6 months if GTA4's release cycle is anything to go by.
You've never, in your life, seen or experienced a game that has only 6 hours of content in it?
Ever? No Portal? No NES games? No Tetris? No Poker? No Counter-Strike? No HL2? No Uncharted? Nothing under 6 hours ever?
Wow. Are you here just to shake a stick at people who are having fun where you are not?
You all are nerd cred revoked.
Mmhm.
How can people not stand behind their words, coward?
Yeah I agree GTAV seems like a lot of fun :-)
What a strange way to quantify your fun.
Do you not have sex unless it lasts for 10+ hours?
You can have fun, enjoyable, fulfilling experiences in any number of minutes. Arbitrarily passing a game off as "not worth your time" just because it can be finished in a day (hell maybe even a full long sitting!!!!) is... strange.
(I was just making fun of the Anonymous Coward moniker).