The Piston is a console computer hybrid device that can fit in the size of your hand, developed by Xi3. It's the closest thing to a Steam Box so far, Valve's is in the works.
The Piston doesn't have a disk slot as you can see from the visual, downloaded gaming from steam and others, can be played on your desktop or TV screen, and probably the coolest hybrid I've ever seen, not to mention accessible from the inside to personally upgrade it. The device is built for the overall hardcore gamer. The Specs are nice for this device but, arguable for this outrageous price. (unintentional rhyme)
The Piston is supposed to be released during "The holidays" of 2013 and no not 4th of July, or all the other million holidays out there. Let's just say December. Good news is the Piston is now available for pre-order, and if you do you can get $100 the product for the standard edition or base version. The bad news is the base price for the Piston
- Standard 128GB hard-drive is $999.99. (after pre-order $899)
- 256GB hard-drive is $1,239.99
- 512GB hard-drive is $1,649.99
Every Piston consists of 8GB RAM and a 3.2Ghz Quad Core processor (R464) and you can find all the details on it at the Xi3 website: http://xi3.com/tech_specs.php
Fun Fact about product: Custom Colorization! awwwwwhhh yeeahhh!
My opinion?
This product definitely has potential for being competition for the other "consoles" for being the top dog, but with this kind of outrageous price and some confusion on the device itself, mainly about the computer portion of the device, plus multiple other questions, I honestly don't see it happening. I am personally all for Download Only gaming through steam and other online tools, but majority of the world has this ideally view of a Console that it's one-fourth of a computer, like a "smart" phone. It has apps, online interactivity, able to connect to certain websites, movies, music, etc. just never considered a computer.
The Piston will be considered half a computer or possibly a bit more than that. I feel as if the world almost isn't ready for that kind of feeling from a home console. It doesn't help that everyone won't be able to get over the whole "no disk slot!" thing. (which Xi3 is saying it's a good thing and I agree). Overall cool product, great idea, and phenomenal way to improve our technology. Unfortunately, Everyone and their kid has a form of a computer already. Between iPhones, laptops, desktops, Xboxs, PlayStations, and the satellites on TVs, everyone has at least some portion of a computer, or at least a way to update a Facebook status. So why buy another portion of a computer instead of just upgrading your own? I'll let that question be up to you since everyone's situation is different.
And so the war is still raging! Are you still confused? Just watch this video!
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