According to an announcement by the company this week Steam will have its own dedicated space for Steam Machines, Steam Controller and Steam Link streaming device.
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Why this matters: When Valve officially unwraps its hardware on November 10, the company will have a hard time explaining the Steam Machine concept to average gamers who doesn’t follow breaking technology news.
Through the holiday season, GameStop, GAME United Kingdom, and EB Games will be the exclusive non-digital retailer for the Steam Hardware products in their respective territories. If you want access to most of the 6,000 extant PC games Valve now stocks, it’s pretty much Steam or nothing.
PC sections have always been sparse in retailer stores, so it’s nice to see PC making a big comeback thanks to various Steam hardware. First announced in 2013, Valve ended up delaying the launch of official Steam Machines so that it could tweak the controller and fine tune its Linux-based Steam OS.
The Steam Controller is Valve’s idea of the ideal wireless gamepad.
The video you’ll see below showcases the “Steam Controller” and effectively communicates what the SteamOS universe is all about.
Origin’s Chronos Steam Machine will be housed in a horizontal enclosure with very few lights.
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Valve and GameStop thus look to have an up-mountain extreme sports climb ahead, convincing a demographic that already skews do-it-yourself and bargain-hunter that paying the inexorable retail markup is worth it.
