[Tensei]

Codenamed Piston, though Steam Engine or Gabecube work too.

http://www.polygon.com/2013/1/7/3849...-steam-box-xi3

Xi3 chief marketing officer David Politis told Polygon that Piston will offer up to 1 TB of interal storage and offer modular component updates, including the option to upgrade the PC's CPU and RAM.

It basically looks like a portable mini PC optimized to hook up to large screen TVs, with a linux OS, and (obviously) Steam support.



It's supposed to be very modular as well, so adding RAM or a new video card should be quite easy. My only worry is the Linux OS, since the library of Linux-compatible video games is very small, but maybe Valve will use some black voodoo magic to somehow make Windows games run well on it too. That, or encourage developers into porting their games to Linux.

For reference, these are the specs of one of the companies other Mini PCs, which sells at $1100. I assume the Piston will be cheaper, but also more streamlined towards gaming.

A quad-core 64-bit, x86-based 32nm processor running at up to 3.2GHz (with 4MB of Level2 Cache)
An integrated graphics processor (GPU) containing up to 384 programmable graphics cores (or shaders)
4GB-8GB of DDR3 RAM
64GB-1TB of internal solid-state SSD storage (with up to 12Gbps throughput speeds)
Three display ports providing maximum resolution of 4096x2160 (including one DisplayPort v1.2 and * 2 Mini-DisplayPorts v1.2)
Four eSATAp 3.0 ports
Four USB 3.0 ports
Four USB 2.0 ports
1Gb Ethernet port
Three audio ports (1 input and 2 outputs: 1 copper and 1 optical)