Steam Box comfirmed:
There’s this one Valve veteran who was definitively too chatty in the past. His name is Greg Coomer (
http://www.valvesoftware.com/company/people.html), he’s a product designer and leading the SteamBox-team, which is pretty unspectacular in size with just 5-10 people working on it. Now, Greg sometimes tweets interesting stuff:
(in a non-chronological order)
Date: 22 Oct 2011
Link:
https://twitter.com/#!/gregcoomer/status/127560965821693952
Tweet: “What I'm working on:
http://t.co/jDLQnxvl”
Note: Read the article and especially Gabe’s statements. It’s obviously about a possible Valve console.
Date: 14 Oct 2011
Link:
https://twitter.com/#!/gregcoomer/status/124651468501434371
Tweet: “Building a mini-ITX form factor PC is hard. Even things like wiring the power supply are not standard or straightforward.”
Note: Well …
Date: 3 Nov 2011
Link:
https://twitter.com/#!/gregcoomer/media/slideshow?url=pic.twitter.com/uVdGOtZq
Tweet: “Built this tiny PC. i7 quad core, 8GB ram, Zotac Z-68 mobo w/ onnboard Nvidia mobile gfx. Runs Portal 2 FAST.”
Note: This is the demo unit they used to demo the Big-Picture-Mode to possible hardware partners at CES 2012. This specification DOES NOT necessarily reflect what’s going to be used as the “baseline” specification for the final product(s). (contrary to Joshes’ story)
That’s just a snippet of all the information I’ve gathered about this project. However, I think these tweets pretty much confirm that Valve is actually working on a console (-like PC).
You may take screenshots of the tweets – just in case they get pulled.
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