Steam Machines and Controllers Shipping

300 beta testers will receive their Steam Machines and controllers soon.

Steam Machines and Steam Controllers were shipped on Friday, December 13th to the 300 beta participants!

The 300 selected beta testers were notified by Valve midday on December 11th that they were chosen for the Steam hardware and SteamOS testing. They also received a badge on their Steam Community profile and a number of games that run natively on SteamOS.

Much to Valve's dismay, the beta test had to be limited to U.S. participants because of regulatory hurdles. Doing otherwise would have delayed the whole beta to the point where the feedback wouldn't have been incorporated into the 2014 products. Rest assured that it will ONLY affects Valve’s 300 prototype units and NOT the the commercial versions of Steam Machines that will be for sale in 2014. More information on those will be announced at CES on January 6th.

SteamOS will be made available when the prototype hardware ships. It will be downloadable by individual users and commercial OEMs. The in-home streaming beta will begin soon, too!


Guilhemette "Whilhelmina" Giacopazzi

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