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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They haven't released the installable ISO, but there's no reason why hardware vendors and Valve couldn't work together to build a Steam OS image for specific devices.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Presuming valve wants to do this of course.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Don't see why they wouldn't. Every SteamOS device sold is a huge win for them

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Depends how they view their business evolving. Ask Apple if you can build a device that runs iOS. They have an App Store and make lots of money from it.

If they want to be in the hardware business, not just building proof of concept/proof of market devices, they very much may not want to share it with other manufacturing of competing devices.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah that's true, there's also the maintenance burden to consider as well. It would be a pretty big departure for Valve though, Apple was always selling hardware but Valve wants to get their storefront in front of as many people as possible because that's how they print money. They also want to get more folks gaming on Linux so I think the incentives right now line up pretty nicely for Valve to want other devices running their os.

We'll have to wait and see. I personally would love to see more devices running SteamOS as well so I'm definitely biased!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They have everything to win and nothing to lose. SteamOS is purpose built to direct you to Steam, Valve only wins.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Depends how they view their business evolving. Ask Apple if you can build a device that runs iOS.

If they want to be in the hardware business and SteamOS is the best thing out there, they very much may not want to make it easy for other people to run.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They already stated they want to have SteamOS 3.0 available for everyone to download and install on any machine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@Rossel @stevehobbes

Soon or later their making steam only available on steamOS.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

There's still a looong way to go before Valve can even think of doing something like that.