The Steam Machine’s controller – and that’s a prototype shot of its new design up top – isn’t designed to be a loner. Indeed, if developers want to push the limits, it’ll be part of a multiplayer experience not seen in almost a decade.
Think Bomberman. Or FIFA. Or some nightmarishly modded version of Smash Bros. Or a 4×4 game of Halo.
Or…some new kind of amazing local multiplayer experience so cool we don’t even know about it yet
Now all you’ll need is to find a room big enough to actually hold 16 people…
4×4 split screen on 2x HD for 16 players would still be more pixels per player than the N64 launch titles #steamdevdays
— Yossarian King (@zer0andone) January 15, 2014
Steam Controllers support 16 simultaneous connections for multiplayer gaming [Gamesbeat]
Image: Sergey Galyonkin
