I thought only the non gaming stuff was not on Windows 7 for 11.1. MS basically forcing enterprise to upgrade (which if MS doesn't force, they stay on Windows 98 for 2 decades...) and gamers / home users aren't really forced.
first impressions of new controller
http://kotaku.com/valves-controller-has-been-tested-here-are-some-impre-1415579308
so theoretically you could use it like a trackball, reassign it to steer a car like the jog wheel on an old ipod, and emulate a dpad because of the haptic simulator.
Reading all the impressions make me even less receptive about this controller. A flat trackpad isn't going to simulate the feeling of holding a joystick in a certain direction for a turn or a real button press.
Eh, guess we'll see when it actually comes out.
Reading all the impressions make me even less receptive about this controller. A flat trackpad isn't going to simulate the feeling of holding a joystick in a certain direction for a turn or a real button press.
Eh, guess we'll see when it actually comes out.
Uh, you do know the trackpads are also buttons, right? As in real, actuating buttons? I'm pretty sure real buttons feel like real buttons.
This controller will more than likely fair well with mouse focused games, but at the expense of traditional controller based games. This really wouldn't solve the problem of PC on the TV, because I'd still need multiple types of input to have the best experience.
I honestly don't care if it's good at classic controller-oriented games. I have a couple logitech controllers that I'm happy to use for those. If thumb sticks are still better for platformers, fighting games and racing games, that's fine by me. I'm only interested in whether this controller allows me to play games that traditionally don't work well on a controller--like strategy and FPS. Keyboard and mouse games are the thing that would keep me from wanting to play computer games in front of a TV.
Unfortunately, none of the impressions I've seen really cover those genres, which has me worried that it's not where they're properly focusing their attention.
There's always Joy2Key for that. This controller just seems to make it tidier to set up.
That doesn't really solve anything. The problem is that some games aren't well suited for thumb sticks and instead do much better with a mouse and keyboard. There's no really good way, though, to use those things on a couch. *If* this controller is able to better reproduce the speed and precision of a mouse, then it would go a long way towards making PC games viable on a TV.
That doesn't really solve anything. The problem is that some games aren't well suited for thumb sticks and instead do much better with a mouse and keyboard. There's no really good way, though, to use those things on a couch. *If* this controller is able to better reproduce the speed and precision of a mouse, then it would go a long way towards making PC games viable on a TV.
There already is a way, you can use a keyboard and a trackball mouse. My friend does this. Yes, the trackball is stupid, but it offers all the speed and precision of a mouse for the most part. That is what the thumbsticks are sounding like, but two of them doesn't make a lot of sense. You don't need two precision instruments to play PC games. Most still use WASD which translates amazingly to a controller and a mouse which doesn't. A single track pad for the right thumb and a thumbstick for the left would almost be perfect.
There already is a way, you can use a keyboard and a trackball mouse. My friend does this. Yes, the trackball is stupid, but it offers all the speed and precision of a mouse for the most part. That is what the thumbsticks are sounding like, but two of them doesn't make a lot of sense. You don't need two precision instruments to play PC games. Most still use WASD which translates amazingly to a controller and a mouse which doesn't. A single track pad for the right thumb and a thumbstick for the left would almost be perfect.
Prototype specs announced for the Steambox beta.
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamuniverse#announcements/detail/2145128928746175450
Good luck competing with consoles, Valve. Nobody is paying $1500 to play CoD on their TV.
So for our own first prototype Steam Machine ( the one we're shipping to 300 Steam users ), we've chosen to build something special. The prototype machine is a high-end, high-performance box, built out of off-the-shelf PC parts. It is also fully upgradable, allowing any user to swap out the GPU, hard drive, CPU, even the motherboard if you really want to. Apart from the custom enclosure, anyone can go and build exactly the same machine by shopping for components and assembling it themselves. And we expect that at least a few people will do just that. (We'll also share the source CAD files for our enclosure, in case people want to replicate it as well.)
And to be clear, this design is not meant to serve the needs of all of the tens of millions of Steam users. It may, however, be the kind of machine that a significant percentage of Steam users would actually want to purchase - those who want plenty of performance in a high-end living room package. Many others would opt for machines that have been more carefully designed to cost less, or to be tiny, or super quiet, and there will be Steam Machines that fit those descriptions.
Are you intentionally acting dumb? From the very same article you linked us: