The form factor is very sexy, the thing is about the size of the Ouya, but obviously with much better specs. Unfortunately, it does seem like this will be around as powerful as the PS4/720, but for presumably double the price. I'm not entirely sure if the upgradeability is worth it, depending on how expensive the components small enough to fit in there would be. I'm also not expecting the interfaces and multifunctionality of these things to compete with the iteration and polish of consoles either. It seems like they're going to leave it up to you to find homebrew (or make it yourself) applicaions compatible with whatever Linux distro they ship these things on. I know Gabe said the official Steambox would handle multifunctionality through the browser, sending you to Netflix.com to do Netflix.

It's just kinda funny that all the big players who have championed open platforms for so long are now scrambling to make closed, or semi-closed platforms.