Steam Big Picture mode beta starts next month
Valve will launch a beta of Steam's Big Picture Mode in September, it has emerged.
"In September you'll be able to hop into a beta, click a button, and see Steam reformatted for your TV and usable with a PC game controller, or a mouse and keyboard if you want to play that way," said Valve's Greg Coomer in an interview with GameTrailers.
Despite the focus on design for a gamepad however, Valve says it has no plans for a console implementation yet.
"We show it hardware guys and say, 'Look, if this is a useful tool for you to deliver your hardware into living rooms, that's great," said Gabe Newell. "If you want to run it on top of Windows, that's fine; if you wanna run it on top of Linux, that's fine.'"
"We should have the Linux and 10-foot betas out there fairly quickly and I think customers will say 'this is really great' or they'll say 'this is another interesting but not valuable contribution' fairly quickly."
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Yeah, because running on those high-spec power hungry servers sitting on fat pipes works so well for onlive. It's not like they've had to restructure into a new company and drop 80% of their team.
Oh wait...
Wow the sarcasm nearly exploded my computer.
It's possible for companies to take existing unsuccessful ideas, manipulate them, change the approach, the marketing etc. and make it into a success. Just because one companies stab at something doesn't work, doesn't mean others won't take a shot if they think they have a more successful approach.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Tablet_PC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipad
Onlive did have to start from nothing, whereas Steam has millions of users that usually try everything valve produces ;).
think about it, a steam client runing on a netbook or a lower spec laptop, and my pc streaming the content, using wifi or ethernet
now thats something really interesting
If a console port can have the screen remapped to the TV for a social gaming session that is a big plus in my book (especially if free).
I agree.
Valve, please move into the tv show and movie market. and get steam installed onto TV's or on virgin media.
I already like playing youtube videos via my paired smartphone to virgin media.
If you could turn my phone into a controller, and then let me play the casual games from steam on my TV, that would be brill :)
You could always use Steam on a TV, this just means it will be easier to see/navigate from a distance.