The Verge came up with an idea for how to get around the long life cycle of today’s gaming consoles and treat yourself to high-end graphics in the living room right now. They used the Steam Big Picture feature, which is made precisely for this purpose. And most games on Windows reportedly support the Xbox 360 controller.
I absolutely love this idea, especially because on the Mac I can only play games from Valve and Blizzard, and most of my Steam collection sits idle.