I wonder why Sony and Microsoft don't realize that Steam is a competitor, Valve is showing clear signs of wanting to take market share not just from other PC stores but also from consoles by launching a TV box like the Steam machine. And Valve is making this new hardware knowing full well that all Xbox games are playable as well as many PS first party games on this Steam box. So Sony and Microsoft are feeding a direct competitor to them. Nintendo on the other hand realizes that Valve is no less a competitor than Xbox and PS, and will therefor never port a single game to Steam and unless Switch 2 gets hacked soon the box will not play Switch 2 games.
Steam is not an avenue to make more money for your product if you are a console focused company, they are a competitor with interest to grow their own ecosystem at the expense of your ecosystem. Porting PS games to Steam makes no sense, it would be like porting those games to the Nintendo eshop. Because on this Steam box you can play both PS games as well as all the games that will never get ported to PS like the coming Half Life 3. Nothing is more ironic than Valve knowing that exclusivity is important while Sony and Microsoft doesn't. That is why Valve sees Nintendo as a challenge, because Nintendo has not bowed down to feeding the Steam ecosystem with titles, which is why Valve first set their sights on Nintendo with their Steam Deck years ago. And now they are instead moving towards challenging PS/Xbox. The Steam Machine is for PS/Xbox what Steam Deck was for Switch.
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