Steam Big Picture enters beta today

50 Million users and still no phone support.....

Well hello MR 52 INCH PANASONIC :) 

Something to do with my old computer. It becomes a console for free!

Do we really think if EA bought valve or if origin that EA runs was successful we would see these kind of innovative ideas from them? I really dont think so. Valve is taking a chance on some of these in hopes of at least doing something original.

So to play a game I have to move my computer over near a TV and then when I want to play a game thats not compatible with this I have to move it back to my monitor? No thanks.

First person web browser?

Show me the medals!

I joined the beta last night but some games still won't work with my controller. What am I doing wrong?

I am only excited about another streaming movie service in the way a student gets excited about another test.

Maybe it's time to give in to my fiancée's nagging and finally buy a TV.

I might just give this a try, though I will still be using my keyboard and mouse because it's just as easy for me with my setup as using a controller.

Wow ..... Steam = innovative (tho it's off topic). I'm so glad to be a steam user, a pure win .

I'm really liking the sounds of this. As I have my PC hooked to both my monitor and HDTV, it would be nice to browse through my games and play them with just a controller from my couch without needing a wireless mouse to navigate through Steam.

This is great.  I have been using my gaming laptop with a 57" TV for a while now along with a wireless gamepad and keyboard.  One of my requests on the Steam forums was for controller support in the Steam UI.  Looks like they one upped it.

Steam is a market leader, it doesn't matter what they do,

they just need to point that out.

and soon other services will join follow,, Origin, GFWL, uPlay, etc.

then a lot of Consumers follow, then there will be a global trend.

and stop compare which is better between M/K and Controller/Gamepad.

M/K sucks at Fighting, Flight Simulation, and Driving genre.

Controller / Gamepad sucks at FPS, and Strategy genre.

Get over with, both is not perfect.

The whole purpose of the PC is to give people "OPTIONS", not strict them.

PC strict people with M/K, Consoles strict people with Gamepad.

the openness is that made PC as a PC, not PC as a Console.

stupid turd PC fanboys.

Big Picture is not useless decision, it breaks traditional wall.

and like I've said, Steam is a market leader, and their decision is influential.

going to give this a little trial, but not sure if i should expect much

What people don't seem to be grasping about this is that while you could always hook your computer up to a tv, Steam is hard to read from farther away. That's why they made Big Picture Mode, a 10-foot display to make it so you don't have to squint when using your television. It's simply a matter of convenience. Otherwise you're all right, it's not something special. I welcome the change. I used to play a lot of pc games on my tv, but they're not very optimized for the screen size, and using a controller was useless until you actually got the game launched.

They should combine this with something like Onlive or Gaikai. Then if I, for some reason, don't feel like loading down my hard drive with my games or I don't want to wait for them to download I can just fire them up and play them through the cloud.

Most people still do not know that present-day TVs are just large computer monitors and could have been doing this from the start. I still don't think people will quite understand that even with Big Picture. Its a good idea but I doubt it'll be turning enough heads to get enough support for the future.

Agian what people fail to understand its not the end of consols or the end of pc gaming. It's the complete mixing and merging of the two. The differentiation of the two will not exist in the next ten years. Haters ganna hate. "oh I hate consols consoles are ganna be dead because steam is building a pc for tvs" I play my pc games on my tv, and I play my console games on the same tv. The only difference is that ms word is one and not the other. Get over your selves. But who I am kidding. The haters out there will find something else to hate and complain about, once pcs and consoles do finally become indistinguishable from one another. " I hate watches! I mean really! My computer tells time so much better!"

well Steam just needs to score a few deal with netflix Hulu, and some kind of free cable service to make this big.

gabecube + bpm = the end of console gaming.

welcome to the beginning of the end, mentlegen.

ok its official there is the big 4 Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, Steam

It's cool, but it still needs work.

So basically it turns your pc or laptop into a pseudo-steam-console. My pc is already hooked up to my HDTV, so what's the added benefit?

I can't see how successful this will be but it'll all be up to how gamers receive it. Still don't know if it's good or bad though.

I have been using my gaming PC on my 47" LED TV for a few years now. I just have a tv tray that I sturdied up a little and a computer chair in my living room with a wireless keyboard and mouse, or sometimes I use my Xbox 360 controller. Not sure why I need the big picture mode to play games with. My steam games run and look just fine the way its set up now. 

"Valve launching free TV service"

Darn, I thought Valve was giving me free cable TV.

Hello, Valve, I already have my PC hooked up to an HDTV to play my Steam games on, I don't need no dang Big Picture mode to play them.

You just need a video card with HDMI out, with the software that came with it set up for using an HDTV as a monitor.

So...You still have to connect your PC to the TV? I don't really see the point of this...

Well, time to get informed

Daisywheel should make typing easier now.

Particularly makes sense if Valve is planning to release a Steam console at some point.