Quoting: ricki42Either way, you should argue the facts, not the character of the author.

The fact is that benchmark is badly done, with a very old rig that no hardcore gamer who care about performance would have, with nonsense resolutions since SteamOS is dedicated to run on TVs and without giving much informations about the actual SteamOS version used or the methodology. I don't contest the fact that some game, especially AAA games have not as good performances as they have on Windows, I only contest those exaggerated results coming from an (intentionally) unprofessionally done benchmark, the wording and the conclusion obviously.

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Quoting: subI'm really puzzled about Valve's PR department when it comes to the SteamOS.
I'd say they're doing a terrible job. Am I missing anything?

True, the Valve marketing of SteamOS and Steam Machines is terrible, they are simply doing nothing and hoping for the best. Hopefully, Alienware is really marketing it, and they do believe in SteamOS :

View video on youtube.com

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Quoting: DrMcCoy

Quoting: NyamiouYou don't need to answer that.

I can, however, sell you a very reasonably priced tin foil hat.

Very funny, put it up your ***.

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Quoting: DrMcCoy

Quoting: NyamiouAlso I would add that the guy who wrote this is not clean at all

I would also add that
1) Breitbart is an ultra-right-wing smear paper
2) Milo is, likewise, a very unsavoury character
3) The article you quoted is oozing with crocodile excrement

That totally beside the point, the fact is that journalist cannot be trusted. What would you say if you discovered that major political journalists of your countries where discussing together on a mailing list what should be the next president? If they would all keep their jobs would you listen to them when they reveal all together a strange major scandal on a candidate just weeks before the election? You don't need to answer that.

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Quoting: flesk

Quoting: NyamiouAlso I would add that the guy who wrote this is not clean at all, he have been part of a scandal involving gaming journalists of big gaming sites colluding together on how to shape the opinion by choosing what to cover and how to cover it in a private mailing list : http://www.breitbart.com/london/2014/09/17/exposed-the-secret-mailing-list-of-the-gaming-journalism-elite/ [External Link]

That's reading an awful lot into a journalist asking colleagues to show some compassion towards a developer who has recently been harassed by an Internet mob out to get her.

The subject of the mail being quoted does not matter, the fact that journalists of major news outlets are discussing together about serious news subjects on a private mailing list is seriously wrong.

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Seriously WTF? Why do they benchmark with a GTX 660 and a dual core processor at a resolutions of 2560x1600 and 1792x1120? Doesn't that look like they tested all combinations and choose the one that was worst for SteamOS. They have a GTX 980 Ti benchmark PC (http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/09/building-the-ultimate-x99-gaming-and-benchmarking-pc/) why didn't they use this one?

Also, the processor Intel Pentium G3220 have integrated graphics and SteamOS does not support multiple GPUs, if it's active that would explain the bad performances.

Also there isn't a 4.1.0-0 version of SteamOS, and the NVidia drivers 358.91 are not available right now on SteamOS, so this test could have been made ages ago because we have no information whatsoever on when it was made and on which version of SteamOS.

Also I would add that the guy who wrote this is not clean at all, he have been part of a scandal involving gaming journalists of big gaming sites colluding together on how to shape the opinion by choosing what to cover and how to cover it in a private mailing list : http://www.breitbart.com/london/2014/09/17/exposed-the-secret-mailing-list-of-the-gaming-journalism-elite/ [External Link] I should add that the guy that made the Polygon article is also part of this.

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Quoting: neowiz73hmm that's interesting. I assume it's because of the extra launcher? I guess they haven't tested Planet Explorers yet, because they do the same thing. And yet still have their Linux symbol.

Valve doesn't have an army of testers, the games were reported by Steam users as not working on SteamOS.

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With full splitscreen support, and full cross platform multiplayer support this game is a must have on any Steam Machine.

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Seriously this video suck. They are much better pre-release review of the Steam Machines like this :

This one (start at 17:30) :
http://www.co-optimus.com/article/13660/talking-the-alienware-steam-machine-and-halo-5-with-gamertag-radio.html [External Link]

And this one :
View video on youtube.com

People shouldn't review this think as a PC, because as a PC it's sucks and it's expensive. They shouldn't review it either as the thing that is going to destroy Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo, because it's not going to happen, ever. The Steam Machines is just another console that is going to compete with the existing consoles, that has a different set of games that the ones you find usually on Sony and Microsoft consoles, but they are critically acclaimed games that will definitely appeal to some gamers. When you look at it this way, you realize that Steam Machines don't need anything but actual people trying them to be success, they won't be a major success right now but everything comes with time.

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I actually saw this game recently in Popular New Releases on Steam and tough "Damn! it's Windows only", glad to see I was wrong.

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