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I know it's an advert, but sometimes adverts really are quite nice. ZOTAC now seems to be stepping up their SteamOS Steam Machine hype with a trailer for their NEN unit.
It's really, really great to see some more advertising come out for Steam Machines. The only problem with this trailer, is that it shows a bunch of featured games at one point that aren't on SteamOS. That's actually a bit misleading even with the disclaimer (why show them at all!), but hey, the more advertising SteamOS gets the better it will be for us.
Pretty decent internals for this box too, quite surprising really for such a small unit.
You can see their full official page on it here. It also bugs me a bit that their SteamOS section side picture shows games that aren't on SteamOS. It also makes me laugh that it states "*internet connection may be required.", may be required? More like is required folks. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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It's really, really great to see some more advertising come out for Steam Machines. The only problem with this trailer, is that it shows a bunch of featured games at one point that aren't on SteamOS. That's actually a bit misleading even with the disclaimer (why show them at all!), but hey, the more advertising SteamOS gets the better it will be for us.
Pretty decent internals for this box too, quite surprising really for such a small unit.
You can see their full official page on it here. It also bugs me a bit that their SteamOS section side picture shows games that aren't on SteamOS. It also makes me laugh that it states "*internet connection may be required.", may be required? More like is required folks. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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FutureSuture 3 Nov 2015
At the very least, they should throw a disclaimer up along the lines of "Not all games pictured are currently native to SteamOS and may require streaming from a Windows PC to play on the NEN Steam Machine".They did. I finally spotted it after being told about it and watching the video a second time, looking out for said disclaimer. Kind of difficult to glimpse as opposed to a fancy video with large images flying around.
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At the very least, they should throw a disclaimer up along the lines of "Not all games pictured are currently native to SteamOS and may require streaming from a Windows PC to play on the NEN Steam Machine".
At 0:38 it says "Not all games illustrated will be available".
Oh my it actually does, I didn't even see it the writing is pretty small.
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LinuxGamesTV 3 Nov 2015
Really good trailer. That store page isn't perfect, but also the name sounds negative:
NEN: (for no)
NEIN: German
NEEN: Luxembourgish
NE: Esperanto + 7 european languages
In greece is Ne = Yes ^^
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What ever happened to the Darksiders port? That would be kick ass to have for SteamOS machines.
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Or the nice thought could be that come release day all the games that's shown will be available too :P
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FutureSuture 3 Nov 2015
You and me both. If you missed it, and I missed it, how many others will have missed it as well?Oh my it actually does, I didn't even see it the writing is pretty small.At the very least, they should throw a disclaimer up along the lines of "Not all games pictured are currently native to SteamOS and may require streaming from a Windows PC to play on the NEN Steam Machine".At 0:38 it says "Not all games illustrated will be available".
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At the very least, they should throw a disclaimer up along the lines of "Not all games pictured are currently native to SteamOS and may require streaming from a Windows PC to play on the NEN Steam Machine".
At 0:38 it says "Not all games illustrated will be available".
Wow, I completely missed that.
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The video shows them playing witcher 3 on it.
Do they know something we don't?
Witcher 3 has always been shown whatever Valve has advertised SteamOS. It was also game listen in games coming to SteamOS during GDC. As there's no official information about port yet, there's little to speculate about that. However signs are there.
That's wrong, there was a definite answer from CDPR that no porting effort has started for TW3 half a year ago.
I like ZOTAC bringing a machine, I'm using one of their cards in my X51 because it's one of the few supporting the lesser power supply. The hardware certainly looks like completely locked, so probably we won't be able to replace anything in the box, but that's to be verified after release.
Certainly an option for me, I was always pleased with their products (though, the alienware skull in my living room would be just cool :D).
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You and me both. If you missed it, and I missed it, how many others will have missed it as well?Oh my it actually does, I didn't even see it the writing is pretty small.At the very least, they should throw a disclaimer up along the lines of "Not all games pictured are currently native to SteamOS and may require streaming from a Windows PC to play on the NEN Steam Machine".At 0:38 it says "Not all games illustrated will be available".
I didn't, I always look at those little notes, they usually tell more than anything else in the promotions ;-).
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Really good trailer. That store page isn't perfect, but also the name sounds negative:
NEN: (for no)
NEIN: German
NEEN: Luxembourgish
NE: Esperanto + 7 european languages
Or in my language (Catalan) NEN means child.
So probably this? Because it's an small compact pc/console?
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If nothing else, this has the whole world talking about Linux gaming. I never thought I'd live to see the day. :D
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Wait a second. GTX 960 or GTX 960m? The difference between the two is day and night. Can anyone confirm it really is the desktop GPU inside that tiny box?
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Wait a second. GTX 960 or GTX 960m? The difference between the two is day and night. Can anyone confirm it really is the desktop GPU inside that tiny box?
They absolutely say so:
https://www.zotac.com/product/mini_pcs/nen-steam-machine
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Mountain Man 3 Nov 2015
Maybe Valve has a bunch of AAA games up their sleeve to coincide with the official launch of SteamOS/Steam Machines.What's wrong in this image?I agree, this is going to bite Valve come launch.
[img]<a href="http://i.imgur.com/t20uLnB.png[/img" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style="cursor:help;display:inline !important;">http://i.imgur.com/t20uLnB.png[/img</a>]
Sorry, am I being overly optimistic?
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Maybe Valve has a bunch of AAA games up their sleeve to coincide with the official launch of SteamOS/Steam Machines.What's wrong in this image?I agree, this is going to bite Valve come launch.
[img]<a href="http://i.imgur.com/t20uLnB.png[/img" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style="cursor:help;display:inline !important;">http://i.imgur.com/t20uLnB.png[/img</a>]
Sorry, am I being overly optimistic?
I hope they have a few surprises, but lots of people in our IRC seem to think they have nothing. I am starting to agree since they haven't even fixed the fucking filtering options. I would love to eat my words though.
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Wait a second. GTX 960 or GTX 960m? The difference between the two is day and night. Can anyone confirm it really is the desktop GPU inside that tiny box?
Could be a gtx 970m
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/3rcpd2/zotac_nen_steam_machine/cwmz5pw
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Mountain Man 3 Nov 2015
Having watched the video, I agree, that is incredibly misleading. Plus the disclaimer is too small, is on the screen too briefly, and your eye is drawn away from it because of the motion on the left of the screen.
I could easily see people buying this and then getting pissed when they realize that they can't actually play Fallout 4, The Witcher 3, or any of the dozens of other games that are prominently showcased in the ad.
I could easily see people buying this and then getting pissed when they realize that they can't actually play Fallout 4, The Witcher 3, or any of the dozens of other games that are prominently showcased in the ad.
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ZekThePenguin 3 Nov 2015
This may just be the box that I go for. Looks nice and small without giving up too much muscle.
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Mountain Man 3 Nov 2015
This may just be the box that I go for. Looks nice and small without giving up too much muscle.The video card is nice, but at 2.2GHz (up to 2.8GHz?), the CPU might be a little weak. I'm also not seeing any spec for RAM.
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Segata Sanshiro 3 Nov 2015
Very nice machine, how most of them SHOULD be in my opinion. The price on the other hand....
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