Valve: 'We will make gaming hardware if we have to'
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PostPosted: Mon, 20th Feb 2012 20:10    Post subject: Valve: 'We will make gaming hardware if we have to'
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Valve has suggested that it would make hardware as a last resort.

Valve boss Gabe Newell said that his company would be on hand to develop and sell hardware directly if innovation dried up.

"Well, if we have to sell hardware we will," Newell told Penny Arcade.

"We have no reason to believe we're any good at it, it's more we think that we need to continue to have innovation and if the only way to get these kind of projects started is by us going and developing and selling the hardware directly then that's what we'll do.

"It's definitely not the first thought that crosses our mind; we'd rather hardware people that are good at manufacturing and distributing hardware do that. We think it's important enough that if that's what we end up having to do then that's what we end up having to do."


Source: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/gaming/news/a366822/valve-we-will-make-gaming-hardware-if-we-have-to.html

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GabeBox 360
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GabeStation 4


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The Cakestation is a lie
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PostPosted: Fri, 24th Feb 2012 02:20    Post subject:
yah i can see this happening. hat based television, hat based mp3 player, graphics card in the shape of a hat, a computer that LOOKS like a hat, tshirts in the shape of hats...


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PostPosted: Fri, 24th Feb 2012 08:23    Post subject:
So...

Micro-soft and $ony announce new consoles - "lol wut"
Valve announce new console - ""
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PostPosted: Fri, 24th Feb 2012 09:26    Post subject:
And why do you guys assume they are going to make consoles? Hardware can also mean that they are going to make GPUs or CPUs.
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PostPosted: Fri, 24th Feb 2012 09:34    Post subject:
Sure, they have the means to create better CPUs than Intel and better GPUs than nVidia. Laughing
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PostPosted: Fri, 24th Feb 2012 09:42    Post subject:
I'm not saying they will be better, I'm not saying anything, I'm asking why do you think that when they said "hardware" they meant "consoles".
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PostPosted: Fri, 24th Feb 2012 09:55    Post subject:
Either consoles or custom built expansive PCs like what Razr are doing with their bullshit "Save PC gaming". Anything else is illogical at this point.
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PostPosted: Fri, 24th Feb 2012 10:40    Post subject:
They already have partnership with Alienware if I recall correctly, you can even buy their PCs from the Steam front page.
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PostPosted: Fri, 24th Feb 2012 16:31    Post subject:
iNatan wrote:
Either consoles or custom built expansive PCs like what Razr are doing with their bullshit "Save PC gaming". Anything else is illogical at this point.


Actually they have said once that they were interested in producing a "Steam" gamepad (that was before the 360 gamepad became the default PC gamepad), and that they have already made biofeedback-tracking mouses for internal use, that they might one day make available for purchase.


TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"

~ WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO SAY CAN ONLY BE SEEN ~

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHTUOgYNRzY
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PostPosted: Fri, 24th Feb 2012 16:38    Post subject:
Unless they allow for direct brain controls, I don't want any of that shit.
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PostPosted: Sat, 25th Feb 2012 07:33    Post subject:
iNatan wrote:
Unless they allow for direct brain controls, I don't want any of that shit.


Like that'll ever go anywhere, your protagonist would just drop his weapon and try to grope every pair of tits you see, no matter if they belong to an enemy, an NPC or a team member in multiplayer.
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PostPosted: Sat, 25th Feb 2012 12:09    Post subject:
Valve made Steam themselves after all because no one was interested in creating anything like it/thought it would work:

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You know, we went around to Yahoo, Microsoft… and anybody who seemed like a likely candidate to build something like Steam.

We basically had our feature list that we wanted. We wanted auto-updating, we wanted better anti-piracy, better anti-cheat, and selling the games over the wire was something we came up with later.

We went around to everybody and asked ‘Are you guys doing anything like this?’ And everyone was like ‘That’s a million miles in the future…We can’t help you.


And they'll do the same with hardware, if they have to.


TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"

~ WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO SAY CAN ONLY BE SEEN ~

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHTUOgYNRzY
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