Valve brings the release of the Steam Machine and game controller for 2015

Valve, the company behind games such as Portal and Half-Life, as well as the digital distribution service Steam, announced that it intends to postpone the official release of its first hardware product, the game console Steam Machine and its controller from 2014 to 2015. In a formal statement published on the Steam blog, Valve employee Eric Hope “assumes” that the release delay is due to the fact that the company needs more time to bring the Steam Machine game controller to mind. After closed beta testing of the wireless prototype, the company received a huge feedback from early users.

According to Hope, Valve will take into account all the reviews and will try to make the Steam Machine controller "much more convenient."

Recall that Valve announced the Steam controller in 2013. The development of this device took the company more than two years. In its current form, the controller has two touchpads on the front panel, replacing analog sticks in similar devices. Ideally, the use of touchpads will allow players to more accurately control their characters in games, but at the moment the control is not very intuitive for people who are used to the usual analog sticks, mouse and keyboard.

In his message, Hope did not indicate how the delay in the release of the Steam Machine would affect the planned release of the new SteamOS operating system based on Linux. In addition, the engineer also did not report how things will be with the 14 partners of Valve, who are also going to release their versions of the Steam Machine. Whether the delay of the console from Gabe Neel will affect them is still unknown. For those who have forgotten, we recall that the Steam Machine is an "open project" and the desire to release their own gaming devices was expressed by companies such as Zotac, Gigabyte and CyberPowerPC. All of them will produce their own versions of the Steam Machine, but they will all use the same controller as Valve itself. By the way, another partner Valve, the company Alienware, announced that it plans to release its Steam Machine in September this year.

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