Well, whatever word you want to use for a not-finalized image of a design.
Concept art?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/11/N64-Console-Set.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/PS3Versions.png
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/Xbox-360-Consoles-Infobox.png
Essentially boxes but still they have curves. An effort is made to hide the obvious nature of a box being the best form factor for an electronic device. They look sleek but not obnoxious.
I’d prefer something you can actually stack. If it’s all curved-like you have to give the thing its very own spot (which is probably what the manufacturers wants…), as opposed to just putting it between your other shit.
I generally dislike stacking electronics because of cooling.
TV appliances don’t usually produce enough heat for that to be a problem, though.
This is on the more hardware-intensive side, though. I wouldn’t be surprised if the steambox ships with an overclocking utility stock, either.
It points to the mindset of valve as a company.
Microshaft: Proprietary OS, based on win8
Sony: open source base (free BSD) but with proprietary modifications that do not have to be re-forked into bsd code base
Valve: Open source, with all contributions under the GPL. Embracing the community and becoming part of it.
Valve is making a long term investment, Like IBM, in open source. That is why they will succeed where Sony failed and Microshaft is currently failing.
Succeed at what exactly? I really didn’t understand this last sentence. At what did Sony and MS fail?
Sony made an impact with the play station. They blew the competition out of the water with the PS2. Then with the PS3, Sony got way to caught up in themselves. Between being a vessel for new exotic tech (cell, Blu-ray), the shift away from hardcore gaming to a living room entertainment box and the assumption of built in fan base, they ignored competition, alienated developers and took their customers for granted (Extremely high price tag, poor reverse compatibility, firmware update that blocks non sony OS’s.) Between 3/4 of a billion dollars to Warner brothers and a cell fab facility to Toshiba to buy them out of the last format war, there is a good chance that Sony lost money on the whole PS3. Microshaft is now making similar mistakes. The Xbox was simple and pretty kick ass. The 360, while having less paper specs than the PS3 performed just as well at a significantly lower cost and had well supported reverse compatibility even though the processor hardware was quite different. Microshaft got to take advantage of a lot of the cell tech when IBM built their tripple core power pc g5 chip Now, Microshaft has put forth a machine that even though it uses a lot of off the shelf hardware, with the kinect lock in, the now defunct always on internet requirement and heavy DRM lock in and the high price point, microshaft looks a lot like sony circa 2006. Valve on the other hand is making an investment in the community as opposed to hardware and is making everything as open as possible. They watch and learn, where the other two have to learn from costly mistakes
Ah ok, fair enough.
But please, stop saying Microshaft.
I have been calling it microshaft windblows since 1998. It will be hard to change but I will try for you 
I’m picturing you being hired by MS and on the first day on the job, you go talk to Bill Gates and say “Thank you Mr. Gates, it’s great working for Microshaft!”
It’s all the more fitting when he’s working for them…
To be fair, there’s a difference between releasing a shitty product and a device flopping. The next gen consoles are doing A LOT of things wrong, that doesn’t mean they’re not selling really well. The market they target is not very responsive to the quality of the product because of brand loyalty and/or refusing to adopt substitutes (PC Gaming).
PC gaming is not a substitute for console gaming. Unless you only stick to multiplats.
I can only dream, but I also want to be happy in life so I could never work for microsoftie
I am hoping that the 4chan post about valve and linux is true. The original Xbox, the dream cast, the 360 and the PS3 at one point all had the ability to function as a basic computer. If the 4chan bit is true, then all of the “optimizations” that are the reason why consoles are sooooooo great are going to be available on PC hardware.
You could’ve posted that without quoting me and would’ve worked the same, since it has no bearing to what I meant in my post.
Lol what PS3 and xbox 360 did you play. Xbox 360 had shit backwards compatibility. It played halo and fable and that was about it. PS3 launched really expensive because they put a fucking ps2 into it so it’d play ps2 games. And they took that out to drop price point but it still supports the entire ps1 library (better than the xbox 360 can say). Also Blu-Ray isn’t and wasn’t owned by Sony. Sony is part of a group of companies that worked on the tech and owns it.