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<blockquote data-quote="Roope" data-source="post: 104645" data-attributes="member: 3563"><p>Care to link to that article? To me that sounds contradicting to any other news or statistics I've seen. Most studies to this direction are pointing to the sales of the physical copies on PC. This is a clear trend since on PC digital distribution has really picked up and there is little reason to buy any boxed copies. To be honest I personally (I know, always a stupid argument) don't know anyone who has bought any boxed copies for PC in a long time (excluding special editions).</p><p>And even if this would be the case I really don't see how SteamOS would make any difference. Basically it's a Linux OS with some Valve flavor. Linux ha snot picked up in any way in the past and there is not much arguments to think it would in a future.</p><p></p><p>Then again Gabe has said in the past how he thinks Windows 8 is bad and how he doesn't like the market place on it and how that might have an negative effect on the digital distribution platform for PCs (meaning Steam).</p><p></p><p>Mobile markets and mobile games are not something that compete with PC titles (unless games made for PC are mobile games in disguise, Godus I'm looking at you). I don't think that anyone who is playing games on PC is going to switch to play Angry Birds on phones or tablets. </p><p>If Valve is trying to make SteamOS to SteamBox type of livingroom gaming platform the price needs to be a lot lower than PC is. That means bad performance and person missing out a lot of PC benefits. There already is a a Steam Big Picture for living room TV gaming on PC so having SteamOS livingroom "console" has no room. It is purely a Valve trying to make some play out from Windows dominated platform when Microsoft have plans for their own marketplace that competes against Steam.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Roope, post: 104645, member: 3563"] Care to link to that article? To me that sounds contradicting to any other news or statistics I've seen. Most studies to this direction are pointing to the sales of the physical copies on PC. This is a clear trend since on PC digital distribution has really picked up and there is little reason to buy any boxed copies. To be honest I personally (I know, always a stupid argument) don't know anyone who has bought any boxed copies for PC in a long time (excluding special editions). And even if this would be the case I really don't see how SteamOS would make any difference. Basically it's a Linux OS with some Valve flavor. Linux ha snot picked up in any way in the past and there is not much arguments to think it would in a future. Then again Gabe has said in the past how he thinks Windows 8 is bad and how he doesn't like the market place on it and how that might have an negative effect on the digital distribution platform for PCs (meaning Steam). Mobile markets and mobile games are not something that compete with PC titles (unless games made for PC are mobile games in disguise, Godus I'm looking at you). I don't think that anyone who is playing games on PC is going to switch to play Angry Birds on phones or tablets. If Valve is trying to make SteamOS to SteamBox type of livingroom gaming platform the price needs to be a lot lower than PC is. That means bad performance and person missing out a lot of PC benefits. There already is a a Steam Big Picture for living room TV gaming on PC so having SteamOS livingroom "console" has no room. It is purely a Valve trying to make some play out from Windows dominated platform when Microsoft have plans for their own marketplace that competes against Steam. [/QUOTE]
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