First iteration of steam machine kicks the pants off of Xbox one

[oobla37]

http://www.cinemablend.com/games/First-Steam-Machine-Priced-499-Xbox-One-Trouble-60770.html

I lol'ed

In fact, the Steam Machine will come bundled with AMD's latest R9 270, where-as the Xbox One's GPU performance is closer to a 7790, according to Tom's Hardware. That's not to mention the R9 270 comes with boosted clock speeds, super fast 2GB of GDDR5 VRAM and enough shader processors to make most games weep. What's sad is that for the same price, the Steam Machine is already far faster than the Xbox One as far as graphics processing, memory access and performance goes.

AMD's R9 2xx line was designed to run games up to 4K resolutions, where-as the Xbox One can barely handle last-gen games at 720p.

I'm honestly quite convinced to pick up one of these things.

[Finniespin]

Even the games were optimized for Xbox One.
And Steam is beating it already. HEH.

I checked the case, but it doesn't really look that very appealing to me.
The red leds on the strips don't really look nice too.

[Cortez (Mr. T. FOO!)]

Yeah okay, we all knew that it would be like that, but let's wait for an official announcement from valve before we all start jumping on the .

[Christovski]

Yeah okay, we all knew that it would be like that, but let's wait for an official announcement from valve before we all start jumping on the .

Good plan

[Kwaurtz]

Yeah okay, we all knew that it would be like that, but let's wait for an official announcement from valve before we all start jumping on the .

You realize there isn't one streamlined model that valve is approving right? And that individual companies are going to be the ones doing this, thats whats great about the steambox project.

[Finniespin]

More rivalry companies = better prices.

[Napoleon BonaPARTY]

Even the games were optimized for Xbox One.

I was at the xbox one booth in a store today and half of the footage shown was slow and stuttery as shit.

[Finniespin]

I was at the xbox one booth in a store today and half of the footage shown was slow and stuttery as shit.

Hah, nice!

Tell me your experience.

[Napoleon BonaPARTY]

I was at the xbox one booth in a store today and half of the footage shown was slow and stuttery as shit.

Hah, nice!

Tell me your experience.

Interestingly enough, they had no playtest booths out, just a handful of games were available to buy and a tv to watch trailers on.

I quite easily remember both lastgen consoles putting demo machines in stores as soon as possible.

Nintendo had their new games out though (a mario/luigi rpg on 3ds which had context active combat moves that allowed the players to control the effectiveness of the moves they used, and a zelda game on the wii that I didn't get to play but it looked like wind waker).

[Finniespin]

How small was the gamebooth then.

[DBag]

Y'all do realize PC gaming will also be better for the simple fact that Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo are creating cheap and readily available machines for the moronic masses that don't want to bother themselves to even learn a fraction of the little knowledge you need to get into PC gaming. That and people are easily deceived by OK looking graphics.

[Sqtgdog]

Linux runs better than Xbox windows Clone?.... No way! (sarcasm)

Let's all take a short trip to my favorite place, called Reality, where Microsuck hasn't put out industry leading hardware in a decade.

Frankly, i'm betting you could dual-boot your home PC with the Steam Linux distro, and see a performance boost WITHOUT any hardware changes.  No need to go buy a Steam box if you already game on PC.

For those of you on consoles... why buy what amounts to a gaming PC when your happy with console performance?

I don't see anything changing the status quo here.  At most you might see more people opting for a Steam box instead of a $400-500 console that probably won't be worthwhile (game releases & bug fixes) for a year or two.

[Christovski]

I think the only way the Steam OS is going to be used (outside of a few die-hard fans of course) is as a dual-boot as you said, I can't fathom people spending the money on a steam box when they could just have a multi-use device like a PC that also boots the Steam service. 

It's possible there is some crossover where someone wants the steam service instead of console games, but doesn't want to deal with the technical stuff on PC's and those are the people who will but the steam box.

[Cortez (Mr. T. FOO!)]

Linux runs better than Xbox windows Clone?.... No way! (sarcasm)

Let's all take a short trip to my favorite place, called Reality, where Microsuck hasn't put out industry leading hardware in a decade.

Frankly, i'm betting you could dual-boot your home PC with the Steam Linux distro, and see a performance boost WITHOUT any hardware changes.  No need to go buy a Steam box if you already game on PC.

For those of you on consoles... why buy what amounts to a gaming PC when your happy with console performance?

I don't see anything changing the status quo here.  At most you might see more people opting for a Steam box instead of a $400-500 console that probably won't be worthwhile (game releases & bug fixes) for a year or two.

First of all microSOFT makes SOFTware not HARDware so no shit. The hardware they use in the xbox is 3rd party and with consoles you don't need to have godware because it's optimized for universal hardware. The real advantage to a console is that you don't have to worry about your hardware going out of date within a year or two assuming you can't afford top of the line shit which most people can't.