Eat your heart out Ouya - SteamBox Confirmed [Beta Testing Open]

[Patrick]

I'd gladly buy one of these if the price is right. My laptop is aging and playing newer games on it is painful.

[damnatus]

I wonder will it detect a flight stick as a controller?

[editline]26th September 2013[/editline]

[QUOTE=benbb;42308274]To anyone who doesn't have a controller (Like me):

- Install [URL="http://vjoystick.sourceforge.net/site/"]vJoy[/URL].
[B]- Setup some basic keys (Left, right, button 1/2 etc.) and enable it.[/B]
- Load up Steam Big Picture
- Go to settings and check vJoy is working
- Launch a controller game using your mapped buttons (Fez didn't work for me, CS:GO did though).
- Load a game and play a little bit (Just move around or something).

You should then get the award.[/QUOTE]

???

[img]http://i.imgur.com/jefn6d5.png[/img]

edit: just borrowed a friend's controller, done

[Thovex]

I have some Xbox 360 controllers sitting around with a cable that can connect them with wire to the xbox itself (They also for wireless but the battery runs low really fast) , can I just throw them in my PC somewhere or do I have to buy weird stuff to let them connect?

[Jsm]

[QUOTE=gooooooooooogle;42308284]you're not going to be a good beta tester for it if you don't have a controller[/QUOTE]

Kinda defeats the whole point of it, valve should really remove anyone that acquired it using a vJoy virtual joystick to be honest.

[JerryK]

[QUOTE=LegndNikko;42306795]I honestly hope not. If Valve is going to be competing with anything, I really don't want it to be with things like the Oculus Rift.[/QUOTE]

why? competition is always good

[Explosions]

[quote]Can I hack this box? Run another OS? Change the hardware? Install my own software? Use it to build a robot?

Sure.[/quote]

Hehehe

[Hawke7]

[video=youtube;NkEYnXd5VkY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkEYnXd5VkY[/video]

[GreenDolphin]

[QUOTE=qwerty000;42306124]So, the last announcement is the controller?[/QUOTE]

A controller with biometric input.

[zirr]

[QUOTE=danharibo;42306164]A console is something that only runs code from a first-party that isn't you. If the end-user can install their own software it's a PC.[/QUOTE]

What about this then?
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OtherOS[/url]

[danharibo]

[QUOTE=Ziirxia;42319409]What about this then?
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OtherOS[/url][/QUOTE]

Yes.

[zirr]

[QUOTE=danharibo;42319433]Yes.[/QUOTE]

What? Is the early PS3 not a console then?

[danharibo]

Though it has been removed now and had hardware limitations so It's in a gray area.

[zirr]

Okay, thanks, I just remembered it and wanted to know what you would classify it as then.