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Steam in the Living Room
Last friday Valve published a teaser page on which 3 announcements will be made starting Monday. Here's what we know.
- On the 13th, our lord and savior Gabe Newell announced that there would be news regarding Steam in the living room 'next week'. (Video)
- Seeing the page focuses on bringing Steam to Living Room (SteamBox etc), it seems unlikely there will be any game announcements.
- There will be one announcement per day, with 3 announcements total.
- Going off the page's stylesheets; every announcement day, the picture of the Sun on the TV will change.
Possible announcements
Here's some possible things we think they might announce next week:
- The SteamBox
- Big Picture has slowly been getting more (hidden) OS control. For example, there are files for a network settings menu.
- Valve already has their own software repository where they keep and maintain several Debian packages including:
- BroadCom Wireless drivers
- A Steam Plymouth theme
- NVIDIA drivers
- Package that provides dependencies
- Steam for Linux client & launcher
- Steam Auto-updater that applies updates from Valve's repository daily
- A Bug Reporter that sends bugs to their project tracker (yes, the same one that leaked a while back)
- A recovery tool & image
- Wallpapers (1920x1080 transparent, 640x480 Boot Screen?)
- TL;DR their own version of Ubuntu
- A Steam controller
- Spotify support in Big Picture/Steam. Not really big, but we know it's being worked on
- Built-in streaming from desktop to other devices. Possibly even by Valve. Something like Google's Chromecast or Nvidia's SHIELD
Have any other theories? Let us know in the comments below!