Corsair’s BullDog and LapDog provide a foundation for DIY Steam Machines

In the current state of the console wars, there is a key component outside of Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft that I am dying to see get introduced to living room gaming. If done right, it has the potential of becoming a very disruptive force in the market’s digital distribution front: The Steam Machine.

Bringing Valve’s digital marketplace to the couch, through a simple consumer friendly product, would be huge. The problem is, Valve still hasn’t delivered on a promised standardized “console” of its own (and I’m beginning to think that they don’t want to). This leaves those of us that see the potential of Steam access in the living room having to create our own console-like PC gaming rigs.