If you've been putting off pre-ordering Valve's upcoming Steam Link or Steam Controller hardware since the devices first went on pre-sale earlier this month, we have some bad news. Valve has announced that it has sold out of units for the initial "get it early" offer (with its expected delivery on October 16). Any orders placed from now on will instead be delivered weeks later on November 10.
You may have also missed your chance to get early delivery of the first commercial "Steam Machines" pre-loaded with SteamOS. Any orders for the Alienware Steam Machines placed through GameStop since last Thursday will now be shipped November 10 rather than October 16. Syber now lists a ship date "on or after 10/15/2015" for its first wave of Steam Machines.
Anyone in Soylent-Land got their hands on a pre-release console?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday July 03 2015, @05:45AM
What is this, a poll question trying to see how many SN-dwellers are young and reckless to act as "early adopters"*?
Back when I was using Windows, I never upgraded to a new version of the system until SP1 was not released - took 2 years until I switched from w2k to xp
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* (or... old and financially stable enough to understand the value of collecting first/limited edition items and affording them)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by nyder on Friday July 03 2015, @06:31AM
If i had money to spare I'd buy one. Only to show Valve I support what they are doing. But alas, I am a poor person and generally rely on stuff being discounted in some way. Sometimes I get my consoles only after a new generation hits the scene (Got both my PS2 & GC that way).
Not to mention you are talking about your personal SOFTWARE experiences, not HARDWARE experiences. While software early adopters might have to deal with bugs and other crap, hardware early adopters are stuck to the hardware that came in the machine. Many times that ends up being a less powerful machine then what finally gets released to the public.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday July 03 2015, @07:09AM
I discovered quite early that:
I made a tentative to use a gaming console about 6 year back - a Wii one - was about 1.5 years after they hit the market. I discovered that I don't like the gaming experience using a controller (repetitive strain injury started to show)
Ah, yes. I do have a "collectible" item: one of the first OLPC to arrive in Australia, on a "buy one, give one" basis. Still in its original packaging, never powered on.
There, now you heard me talking about my hardware habits: as conservative as my software ones
Allow me to ask: what's your view of what Valve's doing? What is do you think that worthy of a reward?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday July 03 2015, @06:34AM
Plus you can always make your own PC and slap SteamOS on it. Add in a Steam controller - that's about $50, right?
I'm swallowing the Oculus Rift hype though. And if Facebook is too intrusive, there's Valve's VR product, the HTC Vive. In fact, looks like both the Rift and Vive will be released in "Spring" 2016.
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(Score: 2) by Bot on Friday July 03 2015, @06:38AM
Steam machines are PCs whose hardware is, let's be pessimists, *potentially* linux compatible.
Which is exactly the only PC hardware that is worth owning.
Unless you like to pay monthly for your pro level applications and windows subscriptions, which will happen in the other camp eventually.
So while it's early adopting, it's early adopting a rope when you're pushed towards a cliff.
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