As reported by N3rdabl3 on Monday, June 16, portable gaming will have a new player entering the challenge: the Steam Boy.
Almost like how the Nvidia SHIELD can be used to play PC games via streaming, the Steam Boy–which was announced during this year’s E3 last week–is boasted to be an entirely handheld PC that’ll be capable or running “most” modern PC titles without the need to stream from a powerful gaming rig.
The Steam Boy’s start-up company is aiming to have the handheld PC in your hands by 2015. According to N3rdabl3, the device is said to have a five-inch screen, a quad-core processor, 4Gb of RAM and 32Gb of storage.
The device is also said to feature Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity. Incidentally, the handheld’s most notable feature is that it mimics the design of Valve’s Steam Controller.
Despite having no affiliation or connection with Valve, the start-up company hopes to run the developer’s SteamOS as well as a vast number of games catalogued in Steam’s archives.
You can view the Steam Boy’s teaser trailer via the embedded video below.
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