Steam Handheld
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@Mike-Ralston I think that the Steam handheld is actually looking to play games not just display them.
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@scottalanmiller Well unless they plan to work miracles as far as battery and size... That very well may cut the sales a very large margin, just due to the things that local processing entails.
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@Mike-Ralston said:
@scottalanmiller Well unless they plan to work miracles as far as battery and size... That very well may cut the sales a very large margin, just due to the things that local processing entails.
Valve has confirmed. This is a gaming handheld, not a thin client. Serious power. Way more than an average PC in a handheld. Not a high end gaming machine but insane power for a handheld.
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@scottalanmiller Hmm. Well, I'll buy one probably regardless of the design philosophy, if they can promise I'll be playing Left 4 Dead with no hiccups. If it got support for the entire Steam library, even if it had to run on lowest settings at 720P, the prospect itself is enough to make me smile
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@Mike-Ralston said:
@scottalanmiller Well unless they plan to work miracles as far as battery and size... That very well may cut the sales a very large margin, just due to the things that local processing entails.
Not as much of a miracle as you think. Low power procs today are pretty amazing. Just look at the Shield.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Mike-Ralston said:
@scottalanmiller Well unless they plan to work miracles as far as battery and size... That very well may cut the sales a very large margin, just due to the things that local processing entails.
Not as much of a miracle as you think. Low power procs today are pretty amazing. Just look at the Shield.
The Shield can run the Source engine is smaller instances. The RAM is the only big limitation for that, it can't put textures in for large areas.
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I would pay $400 easily if I could play most of my steam games from where i left off on my PC.
Done.
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@Mike-Ralston exactly. Now double the physical size to accommodate more battery, give it two more years of development and quadruple the memory (which uses little power compared to other things) and you might have something pretty amazing.
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@MattKing said:
I would pay $400 easily if I could play most of my steam games from where i left off on my PC.
Done.
Syncing. Who knows if it will do that. That would be awesome though.
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@scottalanmiller That got scary fast. Double the physical size??? I have to say looking at pictures doesn't do it justice, the Shield is HUGE for a mobile device, comparable to the Gamecube just a little shorter, and weighs as much as the Surface Pro 2. Double the physical size would just make it a Steam Box, and not a mobile Console, lol.
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I see that the speculation is that either Intel or AMD will be sourcing the chips.
