Recently, rumors had been circulating that Valve might be preparing a ‘Steam Box’ – a console-like machine that would play Steam games and other PC titles on your TV with a proprietary controller and optional USB attachments. Valve marketing head Doug Lombardi, however, is dismissing the rumors as a byproduct of hardware they normally build.
“We’re prepping the Steam Big Picture Mode UI and getting ready to ship that, so we’re building boxes to test that on,” said Lombardi noting they ware working on a new Steam user interface built to work perfectly on TV displays. “We’re also doing a bunch of different experiments with biometric feedback and stuff like that, which we’ve talked about a fair amount. All of that is stuff that we’re working on, but it’s a long way from Valve shipping any sort of hardware.”
“We’re always putting boxes together. Going all the way back to the Half-Life 1 days, we built special boxes to test our software render… it’s just part of development,” he added.
Source: Kotaku
