Steam's "Big Picture"

It is nice for when I want to connect my laptop to my TV and just play some games with my controller, the interface is much more convenient. I feel like if you do not use a controller for any of your games then it is utterly pointless with a mouse and keyboard. I enjoy it though.

Its good for people who attach their PCs on big TVs. I might do that in the near future, maybe when desktop motherboards can accommodate 2 or more processors.

Right now on PC, even though its console looking, Its pretty convenient especially when my little cousins visits my house and they want to play in my PC. I'll fire up big picture and hand them over the controllers and player w/e they want

thoughts are good
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I never use it when I'm on my 24" monitor with the mouse and keyboard, it's just too long to navigate. There's already a browser and all my games are just a mouse click away.

With that said however, I have used when I plugged my rig in the living room. I don't really do it often though because its a hassle moving this huge PC all the time.

I personally was really excited when I first used it. Then I realised the interface was a little messy for my taste. There were certain things I couldn't view that I could in the normal view. So I stopped using it, I don't use a big TV anyways.

I've actually stopped participating in the beta as well, it was the cause for my mysterious Steam crashes...

thought that this launched back in early september?

imo if you have a big (hd)tv to enjoy this on and dont mind using daisy chat to type then this could be for you :)

if I have a monitor 17, and 42-inch TV, of course, it makes sense to enable this option and play on the big screen in your favorite race. This is a good innovation Steam, and sometimes even want to sit in front of the monitor with a joystick.
Excuse me, Google.

Honestly I havent used it

I love it. I have a dedicated steam/xbmc box that is always connected to my tv. I use big picture nearly every day.

When I play games like platformers, I plug my controller and use big picture. Or else people will keep sending me messages and won't be able to answer them.

I like it and use it for what it is: when my computer is connected to the huge TV we have here. Otherwise on my tiny 14" laptop, it only gets used when I'm lazy and leaning back and want to play a quick game that's controller enabled.