The Steamboy is real and coming Q4 2016

[fastbilly1]

I am curious about it. A portable pc gaming device is something I have longed after for sometime. Despite owning several netbooks, a hacked zipit2, and a Tapwave Zodiac 2, I have never found a device that played pc games well and could "in theory" fit in my pocket. Since the Smach will be a using a steppe eagle soc (my guess is GX-209HA) I would place it at roughly the same power as a midgrade 2009 gaming pc. So will you be playing GTAV on it natively, no, but will you be able to play things like Terraria, Portal 2, and Spelunky.

[8bit]

I just can't get on board with those virtual control sticks/pads/whatevers. I can't imagine they would perform any better than a traditional thumb stick. Has anyone here had any hands on experience with the console version? All the press I read on them said they were pretty awkward and only okay at best.

[dsheinem]

I just can't get on board with those virtual control sticks/pads/whatevers. I can't imagine they would perform any better than a traditional thumb stick. Has anyone here had any hands on experience with the console version? All the press I read on them said they were pretty awkward and only okay at best.

Ugh I didn't even notice those. Good catch - that pretty much made up my mind unless they are swappable for more useful control options.

[noiseredux]

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[BoneSnapDeez]

"Jaguar-based CPU"

But I already have an Atari Jaguar!

Seriously though, as someone who is (slowly) moving into the realm of digital gaming this thing looks interesting.

[dsheinem]

http://racketboy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=967128#p967128

Whatver, d00d. Enjoy your concave lameness.

[Gunstar Green]

Is this any better/cheaper than existing PC streaming handhelds? Again, I'm trying to find some reasons to want the thing: what kind of things can I play on it that I can't play on the go already?

what are the other existing PC streaming handhelds you speak of?

The closest one I can think of is the Shield Portable, which is an Android device and does not support SteamOS so getting some non-supported (by Nvidia) games to stream to it is a challenge. Plus, being Android based means that those indie PC games I mentioned won't run on the Shield.

There's also the NVidia GameStream. I don't know much about it though.

[noiseredux]

There's also the NVidia GameStream.

yeah but it's not 100%. There are explicitly supported games. And then others you can "trick" by forcing them stream to the Shield (sometimes via streaming Steam itself), though I've found some games just won't work and others work but won't recognize the controller. (I got Shovel Knight to load this way, but the controls wouldn't work no matter what I did).

Don't get me wrong, I love my Shield Portable. But I think it's a far better device for playing Android games than it is for streaming PC games. That's why I like the idea of a device like it that will play some lower-powered PC games natively instead of streaming. It's nice that the streaming is there on both devices, but I can say from experienc w/ the Shield that I don't use that feature nearly as much as playing locally stored games.

[mjmjr25]

Would I want this if I already have a 3DS?