{"id":4148,"date":"2015-07-03T06:28:30","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T10:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/?p=4148"},"modified":"2015-07-03T06:30:54","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T10:30:54","slug":"blowing-off-steam-time-to-reconsider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2015\/07\/03\/blowing-off-steam-time-to-reconsider\/","title":{"rendered":"Blowing Off Steam.  Time to Reconsider?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is pretty well established in these pages that I don\u2019t care for PC gaming, but that could change with the advent of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/computing\/at-long-last-valve-begins-taking-preorders-for-steam-machines\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/computing\/at-long-last-valve-begins-taking-preorders-for-steam-machines\/', 'Steam Machines.');\" target=\"_blank\">Steam Machines.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>These PC in a box \u2018consoles\u2019 could change my perspective, with several <a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/sale\/steam_machines\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/sale\/steam_machines', 'different options');\" target=\"_blank\">different options<\/a> across a wide spectrum of prices, the only issue I see is market confusion.  With 14 (and I assume more on the way) options, it is difficult to know where to start. Picking an \u2018open\u2019 hardware version, that allows for future upgrades (which may be every version being offered) is a great place to start.  With the $500 getting started price point, I just have to reconcile a dedicated Steam Machine over a multi-use laptop that could also be connected to my TV.<\/p>\n<p>The only reason I would even consider one of these boxes is to break into the world of <a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/266410\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/266410\/', 'iRacing');\" target=\"_blank\">iRacing<\/a>.  With the Steam iRacing listing showing Windows as a requirement, and the new Steam Machines being built to support ValveOS (Linux flavoring), I probably need to take a wait and see approach.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is pretty well established in these pages that I don\u2019t care for PC gaming, but that could change with the advent of Steam Machines. These PC in a box \u2018consoles\u2019 could change my perspective, with several different options across a wide spectrum of prices, the only issue I see is market confusion. With 14 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2015\/07\/03\/blowing-off-steam-time-to-reconsider\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blowing Off Steam.  Time to Reconsider?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[62,32],"class_list":["post-4148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-games-2","tag-pc","tag-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4150,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4148\/revisions\/4150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}