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ggrobot · Elite Member Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 53613

alve has announced its long-awaited Steam Controller is now available for pre-order on Steam and across a number of different retailers. The Steam Controller is Valve's attempt to bring PC gamers to the living room as it allows them to play with both the precision of a mouse and the familiarity of a controller in one d

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Tom · Elite Member Joined: 07 Jun 2004 Posts: 4289

I have no care for these things anymore. Reasons why.

- Linux is still going nowhere when it comes to games. Valve is not changing anything.
- Steambox offerings are way too expensive. I can build a smaller gaming machine for cheaper
- avoid any proprietary things that will surely be introduced with these things.
- I can likely buy the controller any way if I want one

Tom · Elite Member Joined: 07 Jun 2004 Posts: 4289

Lets get something straight too. Linux does not do DirectX. It's a TRANSLATOR, it's not genuine DirectX. Valve made a translator that translates DX calls to OpenGL. OpenGL has always lagged behind DirectX as far as I'm concerned and so with a translator what is not supported will not work and then things will be faked using different api calls on OpenGL. Steamboxes, most I've seen are all major ripoffs and what's cheap, 'is' cheap.