If Xi3’s Piston isn’t a ‘Steambox’, nobody’s told Xi3: “We were asked to build a product specificall

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[Jeff the Hobo]

"Well, Valve revoked that blessing in a curt statement yesterday"

I'm sure Valve said all along that the piston is not the 'steam box' and that the piston was just a similar item

[garry]

pistoff

[Marik Bentusi]

Well that's weird. Despite it being called a Steambox by some people I got the impression Valve didn't officially support it from day one.

[Van-man]

[QUOTE=garry;39897898]pistoff[/QUOTE]

You were waiting for a chance to use that pun, didn't you? :allears:

[Frost 31]

Okay? The statement Xi3 makes in this article doesn't go against what Valve said about the Piston the other day. To quote another article on that,

[quote]"Valve began some exploratory work with Xi3 last year," Valve's Doug Lombardi told Eurogamer, "but currently has no involvement in any product of theirs."[/quote]

Which makes it look like Valve invested in Xi3 early, but didn't have anything to do with this actual release of it. And Xi3 are very cleverly skirting around the issue if Valve being CURRENTLY involved with Xi3 or the Piston. Nothing in the comments Xi3 makes in this article indicates that Valve is a current partner, only a past investor. Which once again does not contradict, and actually supports what Valve said on the Piston.

I do not understand how this is confusing.

[fancy ghost ☂]

I'm actually glad this crashed and burned

[knimren]

It's been known for a while that it's not a Steam Box (the name doesn't exist anyway) and Valve only invested some money in the beginning. Then they distanced themselves from them.

[QUOTE=cccritical;39899215]I'm actually glad this crashed and burned[/QUOTE]

Why?

This is just the first of many Mini-PCs that will come out in the future. And since it's the first it's really expensive. The more developers make one, the more variety we get. More competition between developers. The consumer gets more products with different price classes. And since Valve talked with several devlelopers like Intel we will get more of them, which I'm okay with.

[fancy ghost ☂]

[QUOTE=Antimuffin;39899545]
This is just the first of many Mini-PCs that will come out in the future. And since it's the first it's really expensive. The more developers make one, the more variety we get. More competition between developers. The consumer gets more products with different price classes. And since Valve talked with several devlelopers like Intel we will get more of them, which I'm okay with.[/QUOTE]

what advantages could a small PC possibly have over a regular sized PC? portability?

[img]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-IB8zIxoqGIc/Tjv78DgChsI/AAAAAAAABVY/HwrdpT_PyaI/s1600/2726109217_38ea4de99f_o.jpg[/img]

doesn't look like portability is a problem to me

don't even get me started on the disadvantages of a PC this big

[Van-man]

Great, people are [B][B]ONCE MORE[/B][/B] forgetting the whole idea behind Steam "[I]consoles[/I]" is to, well, be marketed as a console.
That means it isn't going to be a huge monster of a box, but a sleek designed box that's only as big as required, and with minimal software that isn't needed.

That said, Xi3’s Piston is a hilarious example of how it [B]SHOULDN'T[/B] be designed.