Speculatively,
this (and
this - see below if you feel like being lazy) is being touted as Values much rumored "SteamBox". If it is, there's a problem. It's nothing more than a SFF PC (Small Form-Factor PC). The "problem"... is (going to be) the retail price. SFF hardware isn't especially cheap, even the low end stuff.
So unless Value have a cut-throat agreement with some 'no-brand' manufacturer in China, consumers would normally be looking at the starting price for this of at-least £400+ - assuming off-the-shelf hardware. As an example ASRock do something similar,
the ASRock Vision 3D, which
Amazon lists at £600+ for bottom end models. They do look like nice bits of kit, but for a console, Valve would have to do some serious strong-arming to get the price down - unless they sell at cost and use Steam Network to recoup losses, and/or take a cut from third party licensed access to the machines. Interesting stuff though (goes back to looking at the ASRock *le sigh*).
Image courtesy of
https://twitter.com/#!/gregcoomer/status/131907166960484353/photo/1
