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Re: Steam releases Big Picture mode

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Post by xxbondsxx »

AshleysBrain wrote: post #26

I'm a HTML5 game dev so not really positioned to comment on the main story, but I did try out the Big Picture browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; Valve Steam Tenfoot/2095; ) AppleWebKit/535.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.989.0 Safari/535.11 So, Chrome 18. What is it with Chrome 18 given Chrome for Android is also stuck on that version? Maybe coincidence and slow release cycles... (Also, Tenfo…

Re: Tenfoot, it's apparently a term used to describe TV-sized GUI's:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10-foot_user_interface

Imagine a responsive web design that goes from 10-foot all the way down to mobile; now that would be impressive!

Re: Steam releases Big Picture mode

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Post by jonursenbach »

tarice wrote: post #30

Watching this, I'm reminded of the OUYA. Isn't this exactly what they were trying to accomplish? In fact, it seems to me that Valve's Big Picture, combined with the ability to "make your own Steambox", completely trumps the OUYA. Why would a game developer want to create a new port of their game to a completely new system when they could just optionally add controller support and publish to Steam? Valve's got the pla…

Why would a game developer want to create a new port of their game to a completely new system when they could just optionally add controller support and publish to Steam?

Because that's exactly the same thing as the OUYA for Android developers. All they need to do is add OUYA support to their existing application and publish it on their store.

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Post by Florin_Andrei »

w1ntermute wrote: post #11

There's an excellent post on The Verge forums called "Forget the PS4 and the Xbox 720, build your own Steambox on the cheap"[0]. It will be very exciting to see if a significant number of gamers (many of whom are already familiar with building their own PCs) take the initiative to go down this road. A nice auxiliary advantage of building a Steambox is that you can use it as a full-featured HTPC as well, since it runs…

I've done this ages ago. The big TV in the living room was always hooked up to a console and a PC. It was always a good combination.

Now the PC part is getting even easier to use. Great.

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Post by baby »

I just tried it and it's awesome!

But I can see something more awesome, what if Steam would sell hardware? Like a new steambox every year like Apple does with the iPhone.

They have an incredible catalog of games, a new steam box would just be more powerful but would still be able to play all the old games.

Re: Steam releases Big Picture mode

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Post by wmf »

tarice wrote: post #30

Watching this, I'm reminded of the OUYA. Isn't this exactly what they were trying to accomplish? In fact, it seems to me that Valve's Big Picture, combined with the ability to "make your own Steambox", completely trumps the OUYA. Why would a game developer want to create a new port of their game to a completely new system when they could just optionally add controller support and publish to Steam? Valve's got the pla…

Ouya is $100, a Steambox is ~$300, and the next gen consoles may be $400+.

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Post by ekianjo »

w1ntermute wrote: post #7
jrockway wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is that from the private beta, or did I miss an announcement regarding wider distribution?

The Linux client is still in private beta, but you can easily circumvent it by just downloading the .deb and installing/running it on Linux anyway. FWIW, I wasn't invited to the beta right away, but about a week after I started running it anyway, I was invited. The only issue you might run into is that it'll sometimes say your account is not authorized to use the Linux beta, but there are directions online on how to…

I did install the .deb, but when launching the client I get a message that I am not invited to the beta yet and that I cannot use this - then closes. Any work-around ?

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Post by tomkit »

I haven't tried AppleTV's Airplay, but I think it just mirrors your desktop correct? So theoretically you could just run Steam's Big Picture Mode off of a Mac and use AirPlay to stream it to your TV?

Re: Steam releases Big Picture mode

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Post by w1ntermute »

ekianjo wrote: post #37
w1ntermute wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Linux client is still in private beta, but you can easily circumvent it by just downloading the .deb and installing/running it on Linux anyway. FWIW, I wasn't invited to the beta right away, but about a week after I started running it anyway, I was invited. The only issue you might run into is that it'll sometimes say your account is not authorized to use the Linux beta, but there are directions online on how to…

I did install the .deb, but when launching the client I get a message that I am not invited to the beta yet and that I cannot use this - then closes. Any work-around ?

Run "steam steam://open/games" from the CLI to launch it instead. Try a couple times if it doesn't work the first time.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/11/reddit-users-bypass-valve...

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