Depends how they view their business evolving. Ask Apple if you can build a device that runs iOS. They have an App Store and make lots of money from it.

If they want to be in the hardware business, not just building proof of concept/proof of market devices, they very much may not want to share it with other manufacturing of competing devices.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah that's true, there's also the maintenance burden to consider as well. It would be a pretty big departure for Valve though, Apple was always selling hardware but Valve wants to get their storefront in front of as many people as possible because that's how they print money. They also want to get more folks gaming on Linux so I think the incentives right now line up pretty nicely for Valve to want other devices running their os.

We'll have to wait and see. I personally would love to see more devices running SteamOS as well so I'm definitely biased!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They have everything to win and nothing to lose. SteamOS is purpose built to direct you to Steam, Valve only wins.

[–] stevehobbes 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Depends how they view their business evolving. Ask Apple if you can build a device that runs iOS.

If they want to be in the hardware business and SteamOS is the best thing out there, they very much may not want to make it easy for other people to run.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They already stated they want to have SteamOS 3.0 available for everyone to download and install on any machine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Rossel @stevehobbes

Soon or later their making steam only available on steamOS.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There's still a looong way to go before Valve can even think of doing something like that.