JayWood2010 said:
Wander_ said:
No shit. of course its hard. Look at the ps3 for example Sony lost 5 billion on that EPIC console. i don't think VALVe has that kinda money. |
You bring PS3 up in almost every conversation.....
Microsoft is completely right about this. Valve doesn't have the same kind of money as MSFT and I expect this thing to have little success. Steam is a big hit with the PC market but I highly doubt that it will be with the console market. Consoles need great first party exclusives. XBOX has brought in Halo, Forza, Fable, and Gears to xbox which is popular with console gamers. Nintendo has Mario, Donkey Kong, Zelda, and Pokemon . Sony has Gran turismo and Uncharted to bring gamers in. Those are thie biggest titles from consoles that really attract gamers.
Valve has games such as Half-Life, Portal, Left 4 Dead, Dota, but all these titles are way more popular with PC gamers than console gamers. I listed games above because they are all system sellers that has the ptential of selling near 5 million games. Half-life may be the only real system seller for consoles and we dont even know that. PC gamers are not going to drop built PC's for a console experience of games they can already buy. This is a competely different strategy than what Microsoft as used in the past. Release first on console then later release on PC. This is release on PC first and then release on console. Now tell me, which will be the better experience?
I like Valve but I see this as being a niche product unless they have something in store for us that we are unaware of at the moment.
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I doubt it. PC gamers are non existent compared to console gamers. considering that not every PC gamer will buy the SteamBox. So how in the blue hell can VALVe make money off of it ...........No offence to pc gamers.
