Xi3 Piston pre-orders open, user interface shown
The Xi3 Piston, better known as one of Valve's first Steam Boxes, had its user interface shown off at SXSW this weekend, just as pre-orders opened.
The Xi3 Piston was shown off at SXSW this weekend, with the presentation revealing the user interface for the customized PC box. At the same time, pre-orders opened for the basic unit at just under $1,000.
Polygon reports that the PC menu is customizable, letting users select the colors of options and which programs launch when they're selected. For example, launching "Gaming" went to Steam, while "Music" opened Spotify. Among the other options were TV, Communication, Computer, Home Automation, Streaming Games, Streaming TV, Streaming Movies, and Streaming Music.
The Xi3 Piston pre-order page is currently open. The device starts at $999 ordinarily, with extra SSD space available for $340 (256GB) or $750 (512GB). The base price has been reduced to $899 through the duration of SXSW. The event lasts until March 17, so you have roughly a week left to order at a discount.
The Xi3 was announced as one of the first so-called Steam Boxes in conjunction with third-party manufacturers, but Valve is planning to make its own Linux-based hardware as well.
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The Xi3 Piston, better known as one of Valve's first Steam Boxes, had its user interface shown off at SXSW this weekend, just as pre-orders opened.-
the only thing thats going to make me want to buy one of these is if i get gpu specs please and ty
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Too expensive for what it provides, unfortunately.
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Agreed, if it was ~$600 and had some solid marketing behind it I could see these doing well but at that price it's going to be a tough sale.
Also I'm not sure why they decided on that form factor? I mean I'm all for making things smaller, but that thing is freakin TINY. It's not necessary to be anywhere near that small and if it's going to significantly increase the price then by all means I say make it larger.-
As small as it is it's not really that much smaller than an ITX box which would be cheaper and likely more powerful.
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hard sell. $1,000 can almost buy a solid gaming machine and console.
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It's cool that its small and all, but I just threw together a bitfenix prodigy mini Itx build on newegg w a fucking 660ti in it for 900. That integrated chip can't be more powerful than an i5 3570k + 660. Can't be.
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Ugh, Valve is letting shit like this completely cloud the market in terms of what they are planning for these devices, what the *real* price point will be, etc.
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hehe "CLOUD" the market nice
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Valve probably doesn't care what hardware as long as you are using the steam ecosystem. Same thing with other platforms like Amazon's Kindle and Google's Android. I am pretty sure we won't mistake this for the reference device Valve will probably release in a year or two.
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