OP, link to recent shit, not something from the before time. [url]http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/8/3852144/gabe-newell-interview-steam-box-future-of-gaming[/url] Also, Gabe Station general? I'll leave this here. [quote]We’ve struggled for a long time to try to think of ways to use motion input and we really haven’t [found any]. Wii Sports is still kind of the pinnacle of that. We look at that, and for us at least, as a games developer, we can’t see how it makes games fundamentally better.[/quote] [quote]— so to trying to talk to a game with your arms is essentially saying "oh we’re going to stop using ethernet and go back to 300 baud dial-up."[/quote] [quote]We’ll come out with our own and we’ll sell it to consumers by ourselves. That’ll be a Linux box, [and] if you want to install Windows you can. We’re not going to make it hard. This is not some locked box by any stretch of the imagination. We also think that a controller that has higher precision and lower latency is another interesting thing to have.[/quote] [quote]I find [Windows 8] unusable.[/quote] [quote]So how does mobile fit into your plans? So this [Steam Box] is called "Bigfoot" internally, and we also have "Littlefoot." [Littlefoot] says "what do we need to do to extend this to the mobile space?" Our approach will be pretty similar. We also think there’s a lot that needs to be done in the tablet and mobile space to improve input for games. I understand Apple's [approach]; all the way back in '83 when I met Jobs for the first time, he’s was so super anti-gaming. In one of the designs that we’re building on the controller side, it has this touchpad and we’re trying to figure out where that’s useful. We don’t want to waste people’s money by just throwing in a touchpad. Once we understand what the role is of multitouch in these kind of applications then it’s easy to say you can use your phone for it[/quote] [quote]Do you think you can really disrupt the home entertainment space and compete with Microsoft and Sony? The internet is super smart. If you do something that is cool, that's actually worth people's time, then they'll adopt it. If you do something that's not cool and sucks, you can spend as many marketing dollars as you want, [they] just won't.[/quote] I'm sold, take all my paychecks. >consoleros buy this >steam has a huge sale on release date >UNMATCHED PRICES ON EVERYTHING >Biggest sale on Steam to date >MS and sony try to compete >they bite the dust as Steam makes a huge profit, unleashing the new golden era of videogames A man can dream, can he?