CES 2013 thread

Pointless. I really cannot see Tablets/Portable gaming systems in the future. They will only be around now before embedded computing becomes much bigger.
 
What I'm more excited about is the streaming possibilities. Now, from what I gathered from Anandtech is that it's the PC (with the compatible Geforce card) that's streaming the data to the receiver (compatible device plugged into your tv, ie: Ouya) and not the Shield. Not sure if that statement is correct, but if it is I wonder if at some point streaming could be done from your desktop PC to the receiver on your livingroom tv and any compatible control option could be used (ie: bluetooth devices). Now that would be exciting to me and would really bring PC gaming as a contender against console gaming for the livingroom.

To me, this is a more realistic and viable approach to Onlive-styled streaming gameplay.

I'm sure if this technology takes off, we'll see AMD do a similar thing with their Radeon GPUs.
 
And here's the Steambox announcement, not sure if this is the 'official' Steambox that has been rumoured, or if Valve is taking a 3D0 approach to their console and licensing it out to multiple companies and this is just one of many 'Steamboxes'.

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http://www.polygon.com/2013/1/7/384...-modular-computer-optimized-for-steam-and-big

Piston hands-on:
http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/08/hands-on-with-xi3s-piston-modular-pc-at-ces/

And a nice hands-on of the Nvidia Shield.
http://www.slashgear.com/nvidia-project-sheild-hands-on-07263730/
 
Nvidia you bastards, first you pay devs to use physx at every game they possibly can, then you buy out pretty much the entire android mobile gaming market. "tegra exclusive" my arse.

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Fixious said:
Pretty sure it isn't the official Steambox.
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Yar, there seems to be a lot of skepticism about it. Probably because the specs of the X7A aren't exactly inspiring, mind you, this is a prototype and could very well undergo some big changes (ie: larger form factor, dedicated GPU, etc). And being able to control what can be upgraded into the machine would give Valve (and other developers) a baseline machine to develop for. So, like a console, the Piston might display some impressive visuals (via optimization). The thing about it is that Valve actively put money into this project and are displaying it at CES, that gives me a bit more belief it is the real (or at least official Valve) product.

Fissurez said:
Nvidia you bastards, first you pay devs to use physx at every game they possibly can, then you buy out pretty much the entire android mobile gaming market. "tegra exclusive" my arse.
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Yar, not a big fan of that aspect. I don't really want to see PC gaming head in the direction of game exclusives based on GPU.
 
Fixious said:
Pretty sure it isn't the official Steambox.
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http://kotaku.com/5974204/valve-says-piston-is-just-one-of-multiple-hardware-prototypes

SeymourGore said:
Yar, not a big fan of that aspect. I don't really want to see PC gaming head in the direction of game exclusives based on GPU.
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Not just PC games, mobile too, I sure as hell don't want awesome games like hawken to be tegra only when they hit mobile.
Almost every top quality game on android either has nvidia only graphics settings, or is optimised specifically for tegra, or just flat out won't run on tegra.
There's even a game called dead trigger were the options are just flat out disabled for non nvidia devices, despite the fact that they run perfectly fine if you enable them via tweaking the INI files.

Nvidia seem to be less about making better products for gaming, and more just buying out developers so that they run crap on other chips.
 
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