Valve called Linux the future of games and promised a speedy exit console

Co-founder and Managing Director of Valve, Gabe Newell, despite a small market share, called the Linux operating system the future of games. Valve is going to achieve this by expanding Steam, a digital game distribution service for home entertainment systems.

Such a statement was made during Newell's speech at a LinuxCon briefing in New Orleans (USA). Given that the share of Linux in the computer games market is only one percent (Newell himself confirmed this), his words sound too bold to be believed.

Coming here and telling you that Linux and open source is the future of games may look a little ridiculous. This is the same thing as coming to Rome and teaching the Pope to Roman Catholicism, ”Newell said.

In February of this year, Valve introduced Steam for Linux. To date, the platform has 198 games. Earlier this year, Newell promised to introduce the long-awaited Linux-based Steam Box gaming console to compete with traditional gaming consoles. On the eve of this event, the company has updated the Steam software to work more effectively on TVs. Newell even hinted that the console could be introduced next week.

Next week you will get more information about how we are going to do this and what hardware capabilities we have. The emergence of Steam on Linux was a signal to our development partners about the seriousness of our intentions regarding Linux, he added.

According to Newell, Valve is also involved in the LLDB debugging project and is developing a new debugger for Linux.

Newell once again expressed his dissatisfaction with the Windows 8 operating system “disastrous for all PC users”. He expressed confidence that closed platforms would give way to open source platforms. From this position, Steam will only get stronger. Over the year, sales of services increased by 76 percent. And this despite the fall in demand in the PC market.

I think we are waiting for a serious market restructuring. The top five players can leave the PC market. Pretty grim prospect. Free and open to innovation systems will have significant advantages over closed and heavily regulated systems, Newell concluded.

Moreover, IBM intends to invest in the promotion of Linux, which wants to convince users to switch to an open source system - a competitor to Windows.

Previously, Valve secretly worked on augmented reality glasses.

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