Valve aren't putting any exclusives on the Steam Machine because they see "the whole PC catalog as our 'launch exclusive'"
The Steam Machine is going to sit in an odd place when it arrives.
The Steam Machine is going to sit in an odd place when it arrives.
The short version
- It's technically a PC, but shaped and presented like a console, which is obviously the whole point.
- But it differs from most traditional consoles in that it won't be coming with any games exclusive to the hardware.
- That's because for Valve, they want the Steam Machine to be as open as possible.
What happened
"Restricting where people can play a game I don’t think is a great model" The Steam Machine is going to sit in an odd place when it arrives. Fellow Valve engineer Loup Griffais also touched on how growing the PC ecosystem is just broadly beneficial to everyone, explaining that the team looks at it "from a long-term perspective.
Why it matters
I'm sure everyone will be so pleased that they'll need to spend four figures just to play video games in their living room potentially forever.
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