It also opens the door for a whole generation of console gamers to experience what they have been missing out on.
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It opens the door to the living room for developers like us to get our games into the living room on a platform that is open and allows the kind of innovation that PC game developers are used to. Steam Machines sound like the best of both worlds. In the closed console ecosystems games like TF2 or our own game Killing Floor that constantly put out free content and provide value to the gamer wouldn't have been allowed to do all those free updates. Console gamers on the other hand have been limited to the closed console ecosystem where modding is cut off and things like Counter-Strike, Desert Combat, and Dota would never have existed. PC gamers have been loath to move to the consoles because they are outdated so quickly and can't be upgraded, the game prices are bloated, and they can't stand the idea of giving up the quick responsiveness of the mouse and keyboard. Getting an OS completely geared towards gaming, with all of the OS bloat that slows games down removed sounds like a godsend to game developers and gets another roadblock out of the way.
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For years we've seen the Windows OS getting in the way of game development in many ways, and Apple has been pretty apathetic about gaming on Mac OS up until just recently.
Then you've got the OS as another step in the path. This blocked a lot of innovative games from getting into gamers hands. Before digital distribution you couldn't get your game into customers' hands without a big publisher and retail stores-both of which in most cases didn't add value at all for the end user, the gamer. Digital distribution, particularly Steam, took two roadblocks out of the path-the big publishers and retail stores. For the first time ever the entire path from game developer to the customer's hands is being created by a company focused on game development and giving gamers what they want. Gibson: I believe that the combination of SteamOS, Steam Machines, and Steam Controller will be the best thing to happen to PC gaming since digital distribution, perhaps the biggest thing to happen to gaming itself in a generation. What impact do you expect a Steam-centered OS and set of hardware to have on PC gaming? John Gibson, President of Tripwire Interactive "For years we've seen the Windows OS getting in the way of game development in many ways."
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