Nintendo set to gather steam?

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Conina said:

Steam games = x86
Wii U = PowerPC

And even if it were easy to port... Valve doesn't own over 99 percent of the games on the Steam platform, they can't just port them to the Wii U.

The rights to do such ports are with the developers (if self-published) or publishers, which could make Wii U ports on their own, if they wanted it.

This wouldn't be an insuperable problem, the MCM module on WiiU (which comprends both CPU and GPU, the GPU being the most expansive part of it) was estimated to cost (a year ago) something like 50$. They could eventually pack it in a steam machine along with your regular x86 processor. Also they could design a new GPU to be paired up with both x86 and power PC CPUs.