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It looks absolutely beautiful. It seems like it's going to be really expensive compared to regular consoles though.

It looks a bit like a fancy cheese grater to me, but to each their own.

A fancy cheese grater sounds much more interesting than the insanely boring/tacky industrial design of the xbox and ps3...

I think the next set of consoles are going to be a little more expensive than the current generation. At launch, the PS3 was $499 in the US.

Sure, but this one costs $999 unless Valve subsidizes it massively according to this article: http://www.polygon.com/2013/1/7/3849284/piston-valve-steam-b...

Xi3 also offers the entry level X5A, which is priced at $499

Most consoles sell at a loss, that is the price for a profit, including the cost of windows (while steambox will be linux), and at a manufacturing scale that is probably 1/500th or less of what Valve will be contracting.

Not to mention that may very well not be "the" steambox, as apparently Valve has said they will have multiple prototypes from multiple manufacturers.

And there were plenty of us who gladly paid $599 for the launch PS3 with the bigger hard drive that also included PS2 backward compatibility...

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