Valve reaffirms its commitment to steamos and linux after the failure of steam machines
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Valve recently removed all references to Steam Machines, within its Steam digital video game store, which led users to believe that the company was giving up the initiative to bet on video games under Linux.
Valve is still betting on Linux A new console on the way?
In a statement released today on its blog, the company claims that it is still committed to SteamOS and Linux. The main reason to remove Steam Machines from the navigation menu was due to the low amount of traffic the page was receiving. Valve says the Steam Machine initiative helped him better understand the Linux gaming landscape, and allowed him to make the decision he needed, to help the Tux platform gain first-class support for Vulkan, and better tools. and driver support.
Valve says it works with other Linux initiatives, but is not ready to release information about them yet. Although he is not yet ready to officially present his plans, Gabe Newell recently admitted that he was jealous of Nintendo's ability to design games specifically for its own hardware. The company believes it can tackle any hardware project as well, and says it has a number of new games on the way, so perhaps it will try again with a console powered by SteamOS.
We will have to wait a little longer to know what Valve is working on, it could be a new concept of video game console to fight with Sony and Microsoft, or it could be some kind of collaboration with Nintendo.
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