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- i_monk0
Former Nintendo president and majority stockholder Hiroshi Yamauchi has died. He was president of the company for over 50 years and saw the development of the NES, SNES, Nintendo 64, and GameCube among other devices.
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Nintendo was founded in 1889
- detritus0
I'm curious to know if anyone has any thoughts about where this might end up?
http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/2…
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Strikes me that if they play this right and capitalise on the internet's love of them, Valve might pull the rug out of all the other future proprietary gaming platforms.
I'm right in thinking that packages and widgets available to one flavour of Linux can be easily ported and made available to others, right? Even Android?
- 'out from under' even. I'm not sure even Microsoft is filled with rugs.detritus
- DRIFTMONKEY0
Steam Box will announce on Wednesday.
- lodef0
don't quote me on this but Valve isn't interested in a consoles they are interested in delivery and openness. A real 'Steam Box' would create a closed ecosystem so to speak, instead they are creating the software like SteamOS and BigPIcture that will work with standard PC hardware to bring it to the TV.
- detritus0
I figure if Valve were to actually make a steamBox, it'd be more akin to Google's Nexus range or Windows' Surface* in that it'd be a representative model used to inspire and direct other manufacturers' efforts, rather than be an endpoint in and of itself.
* hopefully not so much the latter, given its poor reception...
- JG_LB0
xbox or playstation? i will mostly play sports video games and stream movies.
- both are so similar. I'm going with ps4. whist the are both businesses, Sony care a little bit more about thei customers.Hombre_Lobo
- Trust my I know. I interviewed them all!Hombre_Lobo
- Omfg typos everywhere, bed time.Hombre_Lobo
- Hombre_Lobo0
does anyone else hate this logo?
Looks like Jonathan Ive designed it. Seems extremely incongruous with steams clean masculine identity. Its a shame because steam are great and deserve a better logo. Not some trendy, unoriginal, unconsidered logo that you couldn't place without seeing the word 'steam'.
Would love to see their reasoning and logo process for it.
- Steams branding, UI design and UI coding are atrociousanimatedgif
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- detritus0
ok, so no surprises there.
Here's hoping Announcement Three is something to do with the Oculus Rift.
It won't be, of course.
- lodef0
as I was saying they aren't building a 'Steam Box' they are working with a bunch of hardware manufacturers to build 'Steam Machines' which are specially designed PCs running SteamOS,
- possible Steam controller announcement next. about as close as it'll get to a steam box. close enough and even better.lodef
- dopepope0
Are there any pics of the SteamOS logo?
- albums0
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