Just ignore the original comment I made. However, Valve's early announcement about streaming to TV's could potentially be something big if it turns into an On-Live type system. No confirmation of that yet, though a few other journalists are writing that they think Valve will announce that towards the end of the week of the show. Of course that's just another assumption, but it's worth looking out for as it seems the logical place to go with this.
Where did Valve show their interest for TV on demand? All I see is them giving a little extra convenience for people who have living room computers, by making the gui larger so that they don't have to squint and allowing them to navigate it with a controller so that they don't have to change devices between games (if a controller is supported by the games they want to play and if that even is their preffered method of course). I don't see why people are making such a huge deal about it. If they announce an OnLive-type service that will be sent to your TV without even owning a computer, that will be big news for sure, but so far it's nothing like that at all. It's certainly not making me more likely to connect my computer to the living room or anything. It's just extra convenience for people who already wanted that, and who likely already have done that and just had to bear with the minor inconveniences of small Steam text and having a mouse as a well as a controller on hand. It's minor.
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My mistake. I misread the the author's assumptions at the bottom of the article where he said "playing your favorite titles" as "playing your favorite TV shows." Thank you for pointing out my mistake with your ever so gentle bedside manner.
I'm just responding to the general attitude seen. You and that author are not the only people to make such assumptions and I just fail to see why people see it as such a huge deal. Maybe I'm missing something. If they do announce such a service, that will certainly be big news, but what we have so far isn't, and that would have been big news even if they hadn't done these minor gui enhancements anyway. Also, claiming they brought Steam to PS3 is a bit of a cop out. It's not like they can sell games through Steam on PS3, that market is still locked to Sony's store, and this will probably be the case for every closed platform with the first parties having full control over them. But having some of the Steam features available to the PS3 versions of Valve games is certainly good.
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I think they see it as a big deal because they, like myself, are assuming the next step before its announced - which is Steam going the On Live route. NetFlix for instance has completely changed the way people in this country are watching TV. Cable companies are really starting to hurt because people are cancelling their services left and right. Part of that is because of the recession of course, but NetFlix has been able to provide a very good on demand alternative for less than $10 a month, whereas basic cable usually runs around $50.
If Valve, with it's user base of 30 million, could link directly to people's TV's, the logical next step would be to offer some kind of streaming service. So yes, it's all just speculation at this point, but it's not unwarranted. This could potentially be a huge game changer if it goes where everyone thinks it will.
Yes well, I don't think if they announced such a service people's first thoughts would be "but the Steam text will be so tiny on a HDTV, this sucks balls!". What they announced is still just a minor convenience update, whether they announce such a service or not, and seems largely irrelevant to that possibility to me.
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Staying on the Meat Boy topic apparently this came out later today, "Super Meatboy could have been ported to PSN in 4 days."
Here's an interesting bit. Apple has grown some serious balls. They are presenting the iPad 2 across the street from the GDC at the same time that Iwata is giving his keynote:
http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2011/03/apple-nintendo-gdc-ipad-3ds/
I'll wait for the ipad 5 that will be launched 6 months be4 they unveil a new device that will make it obsolette and dub its range "ipad classic" aka "old, dusty and unsupported". I don't see what's ballsy about that, it's just a speech. He's bound to talk about the 3DS etc but it's hardly a gigantic part of their marketing.
And lol @ the commenters there. Apple fans xD
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Just a reminder, in just over an hour you can watch Iwata's keynote here: http://gdc2011.nintendo.com/
I'm only gonna watch it for the potential Zelda trailer, otherwise it's probably just gonna have the usual charts and 3DS launch stuff that we've seen many times over etc.
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Iwata laying down the charts.
Iwata actually praising the competition! Wow
Classy man.
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Gamegear on Virtual console!
Nice, an e-store with trailers and screenshots and links to official websites etc, not just a drab blurb like current console stores are. If I got it right.
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OMGGGGGGGGGGGG 3DS MARIOOOOOOOOOOOO
OMGGGGGGGGGGGG SKYWARD SWOOOOOOOORD
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Iwata dropped the bomb hard.
Hmmm Tanooki Mario?
Zelda looks awesome
Four armed skeletons for the win.
Kinda looks like it is inspired by hinduism with the four arms and stuff. Zack and Wiki like puzzles are in, yes!!!!
I wanted to put together a centralized location of all the speaches, news, and other occurances that go on at GDC this year. So if you come across something good add away:
GDC Expecting Record Turn-Out
Valve is looking beyond the PC for distribution
Super MeatBoy 3DS is a Possibility
Google Take Another Step Towards Gaming
Shenmue Town Getting Smart Phone Port
Peter Molyneux Receives Lifetime Achievement Award
Sony Unveils NGP Development Tools