What if Nintendo released a Steam machine?

[AnthonyW86]

HoloDust said:

AnthonyW86 said:

Yeah but isn't that because it's still in beta fase? Steam boxes lauch in November. I thought eventually every game sold on Steam will work under SteamOS?

Unless publishers release those versions, I don't see how they will work on SteamOS - Steam Store (on PC) is just a front for buying games with built in DRM that work on Windows platform even without Steam. SteamOS is Linux, so devs need to make separate versions for that.

I thought Valve was aiming at getting the entire Library working on SteamOS. Guess not. However i think that for future games they might be able to get most if not all big games to release for Linux aswell. Especially if Valve themselves push SteamOS with something like Half Life 3.

 

That would mean Nintendo would get much more third party support than they have now.