Valve Economist: The company has started developing hardware, “I really saw the future”

[DirtyP2002]

Crono141 said:

DirtyP2002 said:
If Steam builds a console all buy themselves, it will fail big time.
They don't have any mass market appeal.
They don't have any experience with hardware.
They don't have any experience as a publisher.
They don't have any experience with mass marketing.

All they did so far is a gaming store / platform with digital distribution. Yeah, the internet likes them, but this is not enough to sell 50million+ consoles.

I expect Valve to fail if they really go that route.

So, Half-Life 1/2, Portal 1/2, Left for Dead 1/2, and Team Fortress 1/2 just don't exist?  Valve published all of those.

And Steam sales are legendary.  There are over 40 million steam subscribers/members.  If that's not a mass market, I don't know what is.

As far as their own box, there's a reason they're currently developing new controllers, headsets, and a Linux platform all at the same time :)

I mean publishing games not developed by themselves. Sorry for that.
and for the 40 million members number - I am 3 of those. So the real number should be way less.

Steam does a good job on PC but it would fail in the console space. The average console owner does not care much about steam except for the deals once a year. And don't get me started with casual gamers. They don't even know what Steam / Valve is.