Valve's Steam Machines Are More About Safeguarding PCs Than Killing Consoles [Slashdot]

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An anonymous reader writes "CES has come and gone, and we've gotten a chance to see many different models of Valve's Steam Machines. They're being marketed as a device for a living room, and people are wondering if they'll be able to compete with the Big-3 console manufacturers. But this article argues that Valve isn't going after the consoles — instead, Steam Machines are part of a long-term plan to keep the PC gaming industry healthy. Quoting: 'Over the years, Valve has gone from simply evangelizing the PC platform — it once flew journalists in from around the world pretty much just to tell them it was great — to actively protecting it, and what we're seeing now is just the beginning of that push. Take SteamOS. To you and me, it's a direct interface for Steam based on Linux that currently has poor software support. To Valve, though, it's a first step in levering development, publishing, gameplay and community away from their reliance on Windows and DirectX (and to a lesser extent Mac OS), systems that cannot be relied upon in the long term. ... As for Steam Machines, they are a beachhead, not an atom bomb. They are meant to sell modestly. ... The answer is that Valve is thinking in decades, not console generations.'" http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png (http://twitter.com/home?status=Valve's+Steam+Machines+Are+More+About+ Safeguarding+PCs+Than+Killing+Consoles%3A+http%3A% 2F%2Fbit.ly%2F19ZnrSw) http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png (http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgames.slashdot.org%2Fsto ry%2F14%2F01%2F11%2F2144226%2Fvalves-steam-machines-are-more-about-safeguarding-pcs-than-killing-consoles%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfa cebook) http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png (http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://games.slashdot.org/story/14/01/11/2144226/valves-steam-machines-are-more-about-safeguarding-pcs-than-killing-consoles?utm_source=slashdot&utm_medium=googleplus)

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