Steam Os: The Newest Competitor

This new Steam OS that was just announced is going to be a game changer. It is the console that was just announced by the PC game Juggernaut Valve and is going to a major threat to Microsoft and Sony. Now I have talked about Steam and Valve on one of my older blogs so if you don't know what it is just go look at that one or look it up. This is a bold new move considered Steam is heavy PC based and PC only but what they have done here was predicted by many for a while. Steam has announced that they are making a console of their own to compete with Microsoft's and their Xbox One plus Sony’s PS4. They have only released some of the OS’s main features but here are my thoughts on this new console coming out.

Now you can't really say one console because they say that they are making a bunch of different versions of the Steam console. They will be divided by price, performance, size and sound. Now i don't know about you but this seems a lot like a regular PC. I mean that's all the characteristics of different PCs. But Valve also said that they would highly customizable as well as at they even encourage you to mod them and create them as you wish, which sounds a lot like a PC. Basically this console was created to put a PC in people’s living rooms as well as their offices and rooms. I mean the main focus points are that you can stream on it games on it from your PC. So if you're tired of playing your game on your PC just go out to your living room and play it there.

Another key feature is sharing games with your family which sounds like what the Xbox One was going to do before it got canceled but now they added the fact that you can play music on your Steam OS which you can do on your PC as well as stream TV and music. I like the idea if what Valve is going for with this announcement but in my opinion its just getting someone who does not own a gaming PC the ability to play PC games which is fine because all consoles are is simplified PC’s but come on. It seems silly that they would make so many different versions of the console because its seems like money grabbing. Just release one console that plays all the games coming out for PC’s and maybe one that plays most games but not all the high end games perfectly. But because that Valve is such a driving force behind PC gaming I think this release would be great for closing the gap between console gamer's and the PC gamer's and in the end I believe competition is always a good thing for driving advancement in the new consoles and I am looking forward to how Microsoft and Sony respond.