Gabe Newell thinks several manufacturers will offer pre-made PCs built for the living room in 2013, and Valve will eventually join them. Whether con🐭sumers get their hardware from Valve or not, Newell will be happ꧙y to give them a couch-friendly experience with Steam's Big Picture, which he told has enjoyed a "stronger than expected" reaction.

He said it's a matter of when, not if, these "turnkey solutions" begin competing with next-gen hardware from Nintendo, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Microsoft, and Sony.

"I think in general t✅hat most customers and most developers are gonna find that [the PC is] a better environment for them," Newell told me. "Cause they won't hav🅷e to split the world into thinking about 'why are my friends in the living room, why are my video sources in the living room different from everyone else?' So in a sense we hopefully are gonna unify those environments."

Newell said Valve's current goal is makinꦑg PCs work better in the living room. After that, they hope to ramp up work on Steam's Linux version, which would ma𓄧ke it easier for the developer to create custom hardware. While the hardware will by design have a more controlled environment, Newell said general purpose PCs will still be a valued part of the ecosystem.

澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Valve's new engine will also be compatible with next-gen consoles, Newell confirmed, so don't worry about the maverick PC developer going totall𝓀y off the grid. Yet.