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Valve’s Newell: How PCs Will Take Over the Living Room

At the DICE Summit on Thursday, Valve CEO Gabe Newell laid out his vision for how the PC, as a gaming platform, can move into the living room.

"Traditionally, people say nobody wants a PC in the living room," Newell said. But he sees that changing soon, and pointed to a "good/better/best" scenario in which different users will have different solutions for playing PC games on their television.

"Good," he said, is "home streaming" — devices like Nvidia’s Shield that stream games from your PC to a mobile screen. "Think of it as, your PC now has an extra monitor and an extra set of inputs," Newell said. "The price point is going to be much, much lower than what we’ve traditionally seen in living-room devices."

Streaming setups like this, he said, "do require [game creators] to do some work to ensure the customer experience is seamless."

By Chris Kohler

Full Story: http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2013/02/newell-dice/

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