Steam makes it way to handheld gaming with the SteamBoy project
The SteamBoy was announced at this years E3, it aims to take your favourite games on the go. It’s similar to the Steam Box but in a portable form, however it will not be as powerful as the Steam Boxes available, so there will be a limit to the amount of games you can store as well as what the graphics card can support. However it’s been said that the SteamBoy should be able to support most of the games on Steam.
The SteamBoy has two touch screen pads where you’d expect the joysticks to go, eight action buttons on the front, four triggers, two more additional buttons on the back and a touchscreen.
I look forward to Valve taking more of my money on the go as well as at home.
SteamBoy is going to be released during 2015, what quarter however is unknown at this moment in time which will support WiFi and 3G networks, detailed specifications are still unknown, however there has been a small amount of information released by the creators.
It’s aimed to have Quad Core CPU, 4GB RAM and 32GB storage, however this could potentially change once the final product is released. Valve has also stated that SteamBoy will strike a balance between performance and cost, but I can’t imagine this kind of hardware coming cheap. I hope more information such as battery life and expansion of the handheld console is released soon.
I was already looking forward to the idea of being able to play Steam games on my TV through Steam Box, however SteamBoy will satisfy my gaming needs when on the go. It’s a concept everyone has been waiting for, but it can’t perform worse than the Vita? It has the entire Steam library to support
