Valve says Steam Machines are better than gaming consoles

[AlfredoTurkey]

Lawlight said:

AlfredoTurkey said:
I think if Valve had decided to go traditional and created ONE official Steam machine, released it in stores along side the other three consoles and spent a crap load of money on publicity... it would have done a lot of damage. But going about it the way they did, I don't think it's going to make a sizable dent.

Maybe to Nintendo and MS, but not to Sony.

How do you know? Steam, as a service, is so different to what console gamers are use to that I could totally see it doing well. Most console players aren't informed like us. These are your average joes who don't know much. PS1 took off with those guys because it was so radically different and I think an offical Steam console COULD do the same thing. We'll never know though.