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Recently there's been chatter that Valve  the company behind the massively popular gaming service Steam  has been considering getting into the hardware business. Specifically, there have been rumors that the company has been toying with the idea of creating a proper set-top console which could potentially pose a threat to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Valve co-founder Gabe Newell even recently told Penny Arcade: "Well, if we have to sell hardware we will."

 

At a glance that would simply be interesting fodder for a gaming forum debate, but we've uncovered information that suggests that not only has Valve been secretly working on gaming hardware for the living room, but that the company is actively pursuing a strategy which would place Steam at the center of an open gaming universe that mirrors what Google has done with Android. Backing up that concept, in the same interview we quote above, Newell says that Valve doesn't really want to do hardware on its own, stating, "We'd rather hardware people that are good at manufacturing and distributing hardware do [hardware]. We think it's important enough that if that's what we end up having to do, then that's what we end up having to do."

 

Read the entire article here.

 

 

Even if it is a rumor, are you excited? Would you buy a console that you can use mouse and keyboard on AND a controller if you would want to?

 

 

 

 

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if for not so much as the console but the idea its intriguing, could this potentially worry microsoft and sony enough that they need to make there consoles more open? the amount it could force various companies to change or lose out is, in my mind, quite intruiging!

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Not too sure whether I should like or dislike this.

If it would be something like a "regular computer", just only running steam.. Meh I'm good thx.

But I'm interested and I want to read more if it's not gonna be like that :)

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Following the rumors, this "console" is VERY much more powerful then the xbox 360 and ps3.

 

Is it more powerful than the next gen consoles that will be out by the time this is made?

 

Personally i don't think there's room for another console

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Is it more powerful than the next gen consoles that will be out by the time this is made?

 

Personally i don't think there's room for another console

 

Who knows what they'll put in the next gen consoles, but this has a top of the line core i7, 8 gigs of ram, and supposedly a high end GTX 600 series card

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Hey I don't know if you guys n' gals have heard but sometime in the next year or so Steam is releasing their own console! http://www.1up.com/news/steam-console-shake-up-next-gen This is a link to the article talking about it. With Steam's extensive client list this should be a great success and I can personally say I'll be buying when it hits shelves. And I had one question what do you guys think it'll run: Servers or Match Making??

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I have enough trouble using valve's software, I think I'd have to pass on buying a rushed buggy console that will probably recieve a new life-destroying 'patch' every week or less...

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I already have a computer that destroys all consoles, and will still be more powerful and have superior graphics than the new PS4 and Xbox 540 whenever they come out. No need for a silly console.

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