News $50 Steam Link streams PC games anywhere within your house

Richard Lawler of Engadget:

Valve announced an interesting add-on for anyone interested in in-home streaming for their PC games: Steam Link. These $50 boxes (in the US, international pricing is TBD) will stream content from your PC or Steam Machine, as long as they're on the same WiFi network. Adding a Steam Controller will cost an extra $50 when they launch in November, and can handle gaming in 1080p at 60Hz with low latency.

I know that 'Steam Machines' and LRPC's are becoming a bit of a thing nowadays, but to me this sort of solution is a much better way of getting a PC into the living room. It's far cheaper than building an entire new computer, a local network will have the bandwidth and low latency necessary to stream games, and you can keep all of your content/hardware/PC budget centralized in one build.

 

[Matthew]

I will seriously consider one of these, especially if they can get the controller right.

 

[rawr]

So many options these days. We have Razer's Forge TV, NZXT's doko, Nvidia's new Shield... It'll be up to someone to compare all of them!