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Weekend Confirmed 147 - Resonance, Tera, Kentucky Route Zero
by Jeff Mattas, Jan 11, 2013 11:00am PSTWith regular frontman Garnett Lee away enjoying the technological maelstrom of CES, Jeff Cannata helms this episode of Weekend Confirmed, with co-pilot "Indie" Jeff Mattas. The duo of Jeffs are joined by Joystiq's Xav de Matos and director Dan Trachtenberg to discuss a number of video games, both big and small. IGF nominee Kentucky Route Zero and Resonance get some love, Cannata and Dan rave about Tera, and Xav talks about his time with the multiplayer mech mayhem of Hawken. Finishing Moves brings the show to a close, but feel free to stick around for a short post-show playoff edition of the NFL TailGate.
Weekend Confirmed Ep. 147: 1/11/2013
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I also believe a good deal of the excitement around steam box is it force MS, Sony and Nintendo to step up there game, and games. The competitive field gets a little bigger and somebody going to be missing some lunch money.
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The convenience and appeal of the Steambox is designed around giving people mobile libraries of games on different devices. Its not just that they're digital---XBLA is digital but it doesn't have the same advantage as Steam, which is that games can go to kinds of different devices. That's why a lot of the prototypes at CES were low voltage, low spec mini PCs. They're essentially recreating the Ouya in the context of Steam and Windows/Linux to appeal to a mass market.
So Valve could not make a success of a proprietary box because they are a digital store front. It would be like walking into McDonalds and finding they they would only serve you KFC's fried chicken. And say you had a bunch of McDonalds gift cards/coupons that were only good for hamburgers. So again, you're just fundamentally misreading what the Steambox is, and Valve's methodology as a company.
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