Gabe talks about gaming's future and hints at Steambox details coming soon!

[disolitude]

landguy1 said:

disolitude said:
I'm so tired of Gabes nonsence about Linux being the future...

He pretty much spent all last and this year taking dumps on Windows 8 primarily because it includes a built-in app store and gaming hub that might threaten his own gaming service.

Well guess what Gabe? Windows 8 games so far have been a joke and you don't have to worry about that...

Gabe does have to worry about Windows 8 being a success though as it has by far outperformed Newell's expectations, with more than 110 million active users now. Also it has outperformed his expectations on his own service - Steam's usage statistics list the 64-bit version of Windows 8 is now the second-most-often-used OS with 14 percent usage share, compared with 2.15 percent for Mac and 0.10 for Linux.

Good luck convincing anyone that 0.1% of your own service's market share is the future Gabe.

Wow, great info.  I know he is always spouting off about going to Linux, but had no idea that the numbers were so low even on steam!

Just click on the OS version to see the Steam usage stats - http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

Win 8 combined is almost 15%.