Steam Machines and Steam Controllers Shipping December 13th

[Pikminiman]

Today at around 2:00pm PST (10:00pm GMT), Valve will be notifying the 300 selected beta testers for Steam Machines, Steam Controllers, and SteamOS. The beta participants are very unfortunately limited to the United States because of international regulatory hurdles. Though Valve have made it clear that the decision to limit units to the U.S. will not affect the commercially available Steam Machines forthcoming from other companies, which we will learn more about on January 6th at CES.

Some hardware units on the production line​

Chosen beta participants will also receive a special badge on their Steam Community profile, as well as a number of games that run natively on SteamOS.

SteamOS will also be made available to the public on December 13th when the hardware ships. Though Valve were quick to mention that only experienced Linux users are recommended to try it out at this early stage.

To see the original blog post, click here.

 

[Doofcake]

Well that sucks. Here I was, holding my breath on the hope of being selected. Oh well, good to know that we're getting SteamOS on Friday!

 

[Gloone]

Yet again Valve finds it impossible to say a simple "sorry". Thousands of people all over the world were wasting their time fulfilling the entry requirements for a competition which Valve knew it was impossible for them to win. And they just blow them all off with a "we know we made the right decision". Being dishonest, raising false hopes and wasting everyone's time was the right decision?

Just grow up guys, jeez. Act like a mature company? That's the second time in a couple of months you've behaved like that. How hard would it have been to say "we got it wrong and we apologise for letting you down"?

 

[TheWiktor]

 

[Lubci50cal]

I faked that controller for this!
still disappointed

 

[Ikagara]

It's happening! i think.

 

[-smash-]

I faked that controller for this!
still disappointed

I bought a controller. I thought it was a shoo-in.

 

[Exdread]

W

Yet again Valve finds it impossible to say a simple "sorry". Thousands of people all over the world were wasting their time fulfilling the entry requirements for a competition which Valve knew it was impossible for them to win. And they just blow them all off with a "we know we made the right decision". Being dishonest, raising false hopes and wasting everyone's time was the right decision?

Just grow up guys, jeez. Act like a mature company? That's the second time in a couple of months you've behaved like that. How hard would it have been to say "we got it wrong and we apologise for letting you down"?

Whine whine whine...

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