Valve hardware entering beta next year

I know it's been said for at least the 10th million time, but where's Half life 3?.

Valve doesn't really need to enter this business for a long time. Steam is doing just fine and is continuing to gain popularity. They are one of the reasons that PC gaming isn't dead. I just hope they don't abandon the PC market and I hope it is always their main focus, because apart from Steam being a computer intensive application, it is one of, if not THE best digital distribution platform I have ever seen for video games.

I am not excited in the least about this, and I am nagged with the not-so-uncomfortable feeling that this piece of hardware won't be much to talk about. 

The hardware isn't a lie.

do we really need another Resonance cascade valve??!!

Why do people keep talking about this as if it's a console? RTFA. It's not a console, and it never was.

It is of course an hev suit.

the control barrier i see is when a pc game fouces you to use mouse and keyboard i don't want to play it.

A keyboard + mouse adapted somehow for use on the couch in front of the TV to provide accurate and diverse control schemes for consoles? Because I hate aiming with a gamepad so much and motion controls are more irritating than anything else, lol.

pretty sure it gonna come out in year 2020

In Gaben we trust!

'Control barriers' and in conjunction with this Big Picture Mode thing? It'd be underwhelming if this was something along the lines of motion controls and kinect

more consoles can let a fire on sony and microsofts asses to do better i just hope valve games quality does not suffer.

I believe the "big picture" feature and this mysterious hardware they are talking about are all related to "Steam Box", which was mentioned as a rumor few months ago. It must be like some kind of a next-gen console 

'Valve aims to create a hardware solution for "control barriers" in Steam games'

wait what

virtual reality suits I bet there trying to make it and beat the others to it

I am not sure exactly what they are up to, but not all that many PC gamers are dragging their desktops in front of the big screen HD tv to play their games.  I have before, but I had a card table to set up my keyboard and mouse.  Still, the image is not as crisp on an HDTV as it is on a computer monitor (text seems a bit fuzzier), but it was still kind of cool to play on a 50" vs my 27".  Really the difference isn't as great as it might seem because you still have to sit approx 6-8 feet away, whereas you are only 2-3 feet away from the monitor.  The perspective is not much different. So, that being said, I am not so sure that PC gamers are yearning for motion controls or a controller as most will have a USB controller of some sort anyway, and you can still play with the controller at your desktop.  Is this for couch potatoes that like to lean back while they play instead of sit up in a desk chair?  I am only speculating, as we all are, but if the idea is to get Steam users to be able to use a controller and motion controls, I am not sure why someone would want to do that anyway when there is already a successful trio of console developers that offer this already.  Do you really want to play a shooter on PC with a controller?  If this is something to do with 3D and 3D tvs, then perhaps they are on to something since 3D tvs are becoming much more affordable while 3D monitors remain somewhat expensive (relative to other monitors).  Perhaps that is where the "wearable" part comes in.  Maybe they are working on a headset/3D glasses combo that has a mic and wireless contoller?  Who knows, but if it is really 2-5 years away, they might be shooting themselves in the foot when they see what next gen consoles are up to.  We shall see.

Are they really making a Steam console or is this just what everyone is thinking?

A steam console would be great if they can easy the existing pc software to run on it - I feel like a total dork sitting on the floor with a keyboard and mouse playing CS Source on the big screen.

i reckon they should design thier own Operating system designed for gaming so we no longer need Windows,

a "steambox" is great but I would love to see an OS that is used for gaming. it should be installed on any computer and it can use 100% of the resources to run the games you chose to install on it through steam. like a ps3 OS but with all the horsepower of a PC.

And to troll its community, it will be called.... the Half-Box 3.

I'm guessing the Steambox or whatever they're going to come out with is going to have graphics card upgrade options, sort of like a...computer, except easier to insert and the whole thing will be more fit for the living room.

Downloading your Steam library to the console and playing on the big screen will be cool. This will be great if the price is right. It will need to be a cheaper alternative to buying a gaming pc. 

It's not that I didn't take their word for it, but wow, they're really going through with this. It's happening. It's real.

Hmm, "SteamBox"....

"Steam Box" or "Valve Station"

Ugh, another console that plays PC-games variant?  Don't one of these ventures go out of business like once a year?

I knew big picture was leading to something...

Really don't care....just don't take away my desktop PC. Putting in new video cards, ram, PSUs, ect is all part of the charm.

It could be a fucking TV for all we know. All this conclusion-jumping is laughable.

Wish I was a fly just to see this piece working.. Though I don't think they'd make a full console, more like an OnLive of sorts for Steam, they already have something like this for Mac, no?