What if Nintendo released a Steam machine?

[AnthonyW86]

HoloDust said:

AnthonyW86 said:

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.

Yeah, they simply can't have entire Steam library, devs would have to go back and make Linux versions of all those titles - and that will never happen. But, as for the future releases it's probably reasonable to assume that lot, if not most, of them will have SteamOS ports as well.

It will be interesting to watch what will happen with SteamOS and how agressive MS will be with their future PC strategy - let's not forget that SteamOS exists only because GabeN is afraid that MS will eventually force them out (all his bullshit about evil Windows and how he's protecting PC gamers is just that - bullshit) - and I think that's exactly what will happen.

Yeah it's going to take a lot of effort to make SteamOS a succes. But if anyone can pull it off it's Valve. To be honest the only reason i always use Windows is because of the games.

 

But since Valve can use all the help maybe a dual boot on Nintendo's next system could be an option? I don't really see Nintendo winning back any kind of serious third party support without a move like that. They could keep their own games exclusive to their system that way and even keep disc based games if they wanted to. And that way atleast you can play the games you buy on Steam on any future PC or system that supports it.