I'd be interested to know what input methods people have available to them. Something like a list of checkboxes with:
What input devices do you have on your primary PC gaming platform?
Keyboard
Mouse
Trackpad
Gamepad (eg Xbox or Playstation controller)
Joystick or HOTAS
Driving wheel
Other

I had "keyboard and mouse" as one item originally because I figured everyone would have those, but thinking about it a little more assumptions should be avoided and perhaps there are a significant number playing on a laptop without a mouse. Maybe "touch screen" should be in there too

Repeating monthly wouldn't be much benefit but revisiting this a year later to see what impact some upcoming products have had could be interesting. We'd probably want these added then:
Steam Controller
SteamVR Controller or Oculus Touch

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I picked up these and the rest of the Humongous Entertainment Complete Pack from Humble Bundle just under a year ago. My pre-schooler thinks the Putt Putt games are great.

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Quoting: maodzedunI think we can call a Windows computer that boots into Steam Big picture a Steam Machine as well

From what we've seen Valve disagree with that, and will require that anything sold as a Steam Machine run SteamOS.

We know that some hardware vendors wanted to include optical drives but Valve wouldn't allow that, showing that Valve have some control over what can be labelled a Steam Machine. We also know that Dell came up a different name when their hardware was ready before Valve was, and I doubt that that name change was because Dell didn't want to cash in on the hype that already existed.

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