SteamOS announced.

[losCHUNK]

Are you dts in disguise ?

[shaft]

[losCHUNK]

I likes that I do

[Transient]

That actually looks pretty promising.

[Don Carlos]

Interesting

[Pext]

Lets hope the other consoles adapt it. Then there might be actual FPS again; shooters like Gears of War remember me a lot of Rebel Assault

[scared?]

That controller has no chance against a mouse/keyboard...grow up morons...

[GONNAFISTYA]

The way you use it and move your thumbs around the control surfaces reminds me of the pressure-sensitive controller for the Intellivision console...from 1979.

[lvlshot]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/Intellivision-Console-Set.png[/lvlshot]

It's been a long time waiting, but I'm glad someone finally figured out that these types of controls are much more precise than anything you can get with a "joystick" control...which is almost impossible on the PS3 or XBox controllers and their "button-pressable" joysticks...which are clumsier than a retarded 2 year-old. FPS may actually be fun on a console with this new controller.

[Tsakali]

now all you need to do is make a decade long, button bashing culture embrace the idea of using a lighter touch.

[Pext]

That controller has no chance against a mouse/keyboard...grow up morons...

Yeah i guess you're right. But then again, some guys played Q3 with these:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trackball

[GONNAFISTYA]

now all you need to do is make a decade long, button bashing culture embrace the idea of using a lighter touch.

lol you might as well ask them to be intelligent. Console players are morons and are the reason modern games either hold your hand all the way through or simply play it without you while you watch.

No, I think the Steam Console is for a different audience...an audience that doesn't love NASCAR and tractor pull and endless explosions and is actually smart enough to play a strategy game...something this new controller will allow where other consoles/controllers failed. If there's anything that can make a console gamer finally use their mostly-dormant brain, this is it.

What's that? I seem to have no respect for consoles and console gamers and think they're the bane of the industry and gaming in general in how they water it down for everyone? What ever gave you that idea?

[GONNAFISTYA]

That controller has no chance against a mouse/keyboard...grow up morons...

Perhaps it can't compete in precision, but it can in viability with shit-tons of game genres. Look at Steam's game library...it's PC-centric. This controller and console may allow you to play a larger breadth of games instead of just console tardation. That alone puts it ahead of PSX and Xboner in my book and why only idiots would ignore its possibilities.

[losCHUNK]

lol justified jimmies

[bitWISE]

Good article on the steam machine:
http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/4/50637 ... the-future

and

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/11/04/ ... or-steamos

Speaking to IGN, Valve’s Greg Comer said, “you won’t see an exclusive killer app for SteamOS from us. We’re not going to be doing that kind of thing.”

This will also apply to third-party titles, Valve’s Anna Sweet told us. “Whenever we talk to third-party partners, we encourage them to put their games in as many places as possible, including not on our platforms," she said. "Because we think that customers are everywhere, and they want to put their games wherever customers are. That would go against our whole philosophy, to launch something that’s exclusive to SteamOS or Steam machines.”