Quote Originally Posted by taggart6 View Post
Thats less of a reflection of general gaming and more about the personal relationship of Valve and Microsoft.

When a major developer whose founders used to work for your company, come out and tell their zealots that your competitor from Asia is "THE" platform for their futureconsole gaming, then you known you've done ****-ed up big time.
I'm just saying that if Valve keeps up this kind of business model they may be able to completely disrupt console gaming. All they have to do is create a "box" (or just use someone else's) that runs Steam. I only suggested a Mini because it's small and cute.

They could just as well develop an x86 Windows box that runs nothing but Steam for $500, and the TCO would be WAY less than any console game, even with 3rd party titles.