SteamOS, Vulkan, Steam Machines, Oh My

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binary solo said:
An entry-level Steambox being $80 more than a PS4 and $130 more than a Xb one seems like a crazy pricing policy. But ultimately Valve doesn't need to worry too much about hardware sales because they will rely on standard PC for most of their revenue for a long time to come.

But the Linuxness of Steambox posses a threat to Windows. If thousands of games become available on Linux, including all new releases through Steam it seems like the last thing holding Linux back will be gone. The onl reason I have Windows PCs is for the gaming. If I can do all the gaming I want on PS4 and Linux then I have no further need for Windows. So in that respect I hope Steambox does very well and causes the beginning of the end of Windows dominance of PC.

That is why MS, all of a sudden, tries to treat pc as a gaming platform and says most of their games will be on windows 10 too. Valve is starting to threat windows and MS is clearly responding to that.