{"id":21245,"date":"2013-10-01T15:24:20","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T20:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=21245"},"modified":"2013-10-01T15:24:20","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T20:24:20","slug":"experienced-points-steam-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=21245","title":{"rendered":"Experienced Points: Steam Machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This story is huge. Valve isn&#8217;t just entering the console market, they&#8217;re dragging part of the PC market into the console space to create overlap where none existed before. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/columns\/experienced-points\/10630-Steam-Machines\">In this week&#8217;s column<\/a> I give a run-down of why this is interesting and what I think about it.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, the most interesting questions won&#8217;t be answered. I would love to know what made Valve want to make this move. <\/p>\n<p>Yes, yes, &#8220;money&#8221;. Sure. Obviously. But there are a lot of routes to &#8220;money&#8221; and I would love to know why they think this is the best route to money. Consoles are expensive to launch and the success rate for new platforms is abysmal. <\/p>\n<p>What do the folks at Valve think (or hope) is going to happen? Are they hoping to move into the console space for real, building a rival to the big three of Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony? Or are they just trying to make sure they don&#8217;t have all their eggs in the PC platform basket?  Is this a response to the horribleness of Windows 8? Do they see a weakness in the console market that they hope to exploit?  Do they see a demand for games that can seamlessly go from the office to the living room, allowing the user to take their friend lists and save games with them?<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll talk more about Steam Machines in the next <a href=\"?cat=287\">Diecast<\/a>, which will probably go up on Thursday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story is huge. Valve isn&#8217;t just entering the console market, they&#8217;re dragging part of the PC market into the console space to create overlap where none existed before. In this week&#8217;s column I give a run-down of why this is interesting and what I think about it. Sadly, the most interesting questions won&#8217;t be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-column"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}