The First Unofficial ‘Steam Box’ Will Launch This Holiday Season Starting At $1,000
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Xi3's Piston—the first unofficial Steam Box console—will launch this holiday at a starting price of $1,000, the hardware manufacturer announced today.
If you preorder it before March 18, you'll get a $100 discount.
The Piston is the first PC designed specifically to play games in your living room using Steam's Big Picture mode. Valve is helping finance the machine, although the Steam makers are developing their own Steam Box that will also be released this year, according to Valve boss Gabe Newell.
"Clearly, the computer/video gaming market is huge, both in the personal computer and traditional console markets," Xi3 CEO Jason Sullivan said in a press release. "That being said, we believe there is a crying need for a machine that captures the best of both worlds, with the upgradeability of computer gaming rigs and the design and form factor of consoles. We believe our Piston Consoles do exactly that-deliver the beauty and small size of consoles with the upgradeability of computers."
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If you preorder it before March 18, you'll get a $100 discount.
The Piston is the first PC designed specifically to play games in your living room using Steam's Big Picture mode. Valve is helping finance the machine, although the Steam makers are developing their own Steam Box that will also be released this year, according to Valve boss Gabe Newell.
"Clearly, the computer/video gaming market is huge, both in the personal computer and traditional console markets," Xi3 CEO Jason Sullivan said in a press release. "That being said, we believe there is a crying need for a machine that captures the best of both worlds, with the upgradeability of computer gaming rigs and the design and form factor of consoles. We believe our Piston Consoles do exactly that-deliver the beauty and small size of consoles with the upgradeability of computers."
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hope it comes with $500 worth of steam credit.
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$1,000...
WTF are they thinking?? -
$1000?.....no thanks....
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lol 1,000 i hope they dont think they are going to sell much consoles at that price
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I hope some news containing reasons as to why we should spend a grand come out soon.
Right now the price jus seems crazy but I'm sure there is a good reason -
nope
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Only reason I would buy for that price is if the games are gonna be free
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Does it come with an ibabe at least?
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you will build a MONSTER of a gaming PC for $1000
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O_o
My 7850 Radeon cost $200, and everything else in my PC I bought three or four years ago. I HDMI every game to my 46 Samsung and play in 1080 P with no problem.
Why the ? would someone pay $1000 to do this? Everybody who knows about and trusts Steam as a platform is a PC gamer. Gonna be interesting to hear the pitch. -
ParallelRhymes wrote: »$1000? Are they serious? Why wouldn't you just build your own gaming PC for $1000?
Dumb ? .
I wonder who this is appealing to. Casual gamers will just get a Xbox and PC gamers would rather pay a grand for a brand new PC instead of a Steambox. -
These ? is trippin bout that price...
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@?? This ain't the 1800's
