Valve has confirmed that it will reveal its hardware partners for Steam Machines along with their device designs at CES 2014 in January.

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“ Some of them are set up to serve millions of Steam customers. Some of them are set up to literally serve hundreds.

Speaking to IGN, Valve’s Greg Coomer explained that no one Steam Machine will be considered the “main” device, and instead a variety of different boxes will be available, each with their own set of unique features.“From moment one it’ll be spread out across different manufacturers,” Coomer told IGN. “There won’t be an official main partner and then everybody else. A team of people including Anna [Sweet] has been working with OEMs and manufacturing partners. There really is a pretty huge variety of machines. It’s not a huge number of boxes. In January we’re going to start to be specific about which partners there are, how many boxes there are, what kinds of specs those machines will include. Probably ballpark figures on what kind of range of prices we’ll be seeing for those boxes.”Coomer also confirmed to IGN that additional partners will eventually be added after the initial set, but that the amount of boxes actually produced by each manufacturer will vary greatly.Valve's Anna Sweet added, "We have 65 million Steam users . They’re a broad range of gamers. They all have different priorities when it comes to buying a Steam Machine. All our partners we’re working with are optimizing differently for size, for price, for performance, for all those things you would expect. We think that’s great, because there’s a ton of different customers out there who want an experience like this, but have different priorities when they’re thinking about what they want to buy.”CES 2014 will run from January 7-10, 2014 in Las Vegas, Nevada. IGN will be at the show, so be sure to check back for all the news and announcements as they happen.For much more from Valve, be sure to read about how it engineered the Steam Controller , plus why you won’t see SteamOS-exclusive games and why Valve will be the only ones to manufacturer Steam Controllers.

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