Valve Readies Prototype Steam Box Video Game Console
The firm's chief executive Gabe Newell revealed Valve expected to offer prototypes of its upcoming video games console for testing within four months time.
Mr Newell would not be drawn on whether Half Life 3 was a planned launch title for the Steam Box. Its upcoming Steam Box hardware is designed to make it easy to access the service via living room televisions posing a challenge to Nintendo's Wii U, the upcoming Sony PlayStation 4 and Microsoft's next Xbox.
"We're working with partners trying to nail down how fast we can make it," Mr Newell told the BBC. "We'll be giving out some prototypes to customers to gauge their reactions, I guess, in the next three to four months. There are noise issues and heat issues and being able to [deal with] that while still offering a powerful enough gaming experience is the challenge in building it."
He added that his company had still to finalise how the console's controller would work as it continued to explore the possibility of including sensors to measure the gamers' body states.
Source: BBC News
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