Gonna wait and see what the steam box has up its sleeve, its pretty weird whats going on between the two companies at the moment tho. I thought it was clear that they were working with Valve's backing.
($900-$1000) price is simply too high, bear in mind that the Xi3 Piston only has a A10 APU +128GB SSD, 8GB RAM in it... I mean I could build an i5 / 8350 FX gaming rig for less T_T