Gabe Newell has confirmed that Valve will reveal a new piece of hardware next week which it intends to: “bring open source platform Linux into the living room.”
Speaking at LinuxCon in New Orleans yesterday, Gabe Newell said:
“There are sets of issues to making sure whatever platform you have works well in a living room environment. There are thermal issues and sound issues, but there also a bunch of input issues. So the next step in our contribution to this [the promotion of Linux for gaming] is to release some work we’ve done on the hardware side.”
“Next week we’re going to be rolling out more information about how we get there and what are the hardware opportunities we see for bringing Linux into the living room, and potentially pointing further down the road to how we can get it even more unified in mobile.”
Would you be tempted to purchase a Steam Box?
[Source: Eurogamer]
