Ok I did in fact manage to eventually find the source where they'd claimed it's trying to be cheaper www.roadtovr.com/steam-frame-...

If I may hazard a guess, they probably decided to move a lot of that power to the Steam Machine and make the wireless streaming more seamless so that it could be basically the same experience as that original plan for a more reasonable price point for most people.

The early prototypes of the Index would've costed, from what I recall, estimated of about 5000 or so USD. They clearly didn't actually put that out as the finished thing.

Also, I don't know where people heard this, but I've seen some say they've mentioned shooting for cheaper than Index..?

Worth a mention the way the device worked during said rumors vs. how the device works now are seemingly different. Rumors described it as being a standalone headset focused on running games locally. It is now a headset focused on streaming games wirelessly that technically can run some stuff locally

Descent is a 3D game where its environments are, as I gather, formed out of deformed cubes internally... figuratively *AND* literally. You view the cubes from inside them! Also, Sega Saturn games are, as I recall, made out of squares.

Maybe this system is trying to follow suit. I dunno!

Like I dunno, I'm pretty sure as varied as music genre names get and all that, there isn't anything in any other medium like "roguelite" to describe something like "thing that has a few elements of a thing that has a lot of elements of a game called rogue" that I can think of, for example.

Honestly names like that one are a surprisingly good demonstration of why I do not like how game genre names have been going and I feel like the problem is somehow only getting worse over time instead of better. It's... really something, given I've considered game genre names a problem for a while!

Side note, but, good time to mention: Registered Thanatos 3D is lost media by most evidence. Heck, 1.0 shareware version subtitled The Challenge seems lost too. Given there's a debug hotkey though, I wonder if the registered version even actually properly exists...? Game feels slightly unfinished.

Me posting on here about DOS games that almost nobody has heard about like Thanatos 3D: Army of the Night/Thanatos 3D: The Challenge shouldn't be a surprise to people who know me well enough, honestly.

i used old gamemaker versions when i was younger. i don't remember exactly how old i was, but it's not important, the important part is that it means i was amused when i saw it.