Comments on: Prediction: Valve’s Steam Box is Real https://www.breakmanx.com/prediction-valve-steam-box-is-real/ Twenty Years of Gaming. Still Arguing About Halo. Wed, 06 Feb 2013 07:40:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: Andrew Allen https://www.breakmanx.com/prediction-valve-steam-box-is-real/#comment-1597 Thu, 06 Sep 2012 21:46:00 +0000 http://padinga.com/?p=14643#comment-1597 In reply to bcorcoran.

I think you’re right that they’re not going with a traditional console. But the Steam Box, whatever it is, seems like a thing that is happening.

]]> By: bcorcoran https://www.breakmanx.com/prediction-valve-steam-box-is-real/#comment-1596 Thu, 06 Sep 2012 16:55:00 +0000 http://padinga.com/?p=14643#comment-1596 I think Valve doesn’t want to dilute themselves by entering the console market (at least not yet) when they’ve already got a game platform to support. Adding a console in addition to support that + getting game developers to develop or port their game onto said console would be a nightmarish endeavor for them.

What’s more likely to happen (in my opinion) is Valve comes out with hardware to augment the gaming experience, whether that be via Google Glasses-esque wearable computers, controllers, or other peripherals. I think that this scenario would be win-win for them because they could get their feet wet with hardware development, support, manufacturing, etc and still do what they do best.

As a flat company (managerially speaking), I also don’t think Valve has what it takes to take on a project of this magnitude. They have less than 300 employees, most of them developers and designers. That’s enough for some ideas, but not enough for full-scale hardware design and development of a new console. If they were truly serious about building a so-called “Steam Box”, then they would be hiring industrial designers and hardware engineers by the busload.

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