Valve confirms Steam Box

Gabe Newell appears to have confirmed rumours that Valve are working on a “Steam Box” – a hardware package designed to bring the PC right to the living room.

From the sounds of things, however, Valve’s plans for the living room don’t entail recreating as open and malleable a system as the PC experience currently is.

“Well certainly our hardware will be a very controlled environment,” he said, calling Valve’s offering a turnkey solution. “If you want more flexibility, you can always buy a more general purpose PC.”

I would love to point out here: Valve get mad at the open Windows 8, becasue they THINK it is controlled. Then they release this Linux trash, and admit it is controlled

Which begs the question: will the Steam Box be a PC in any meaningful way if it is to be so very controlled?