Re:What if Valve brought Steam to mobile?
by ekianjo on Thursday November 13, 2014 @07:33AM
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Could happen, but I don't see it. They have cold feet when it comes to making their own Steambox hardware (they retracted on their initial intentions to do so) and in that sense I don't see them actually moving towards making their own hardware anytime soon. Even if I agree it would be a great idea.
Imagine, if indeed Valve brought Steam to nothing but the OpenPandora/Pyra game consoles:
http://openpandora.org/
In fact it could be a momentous thing for Valve to get behind this effort and add Steam to the open repo. It'd blow open the doors on Android and iOS and move Linux - as an embedded operating system platform - into the stratosphere.
Valve+Pyra (or something similar) = new masters to follow.
Just my opinion. Before all the 'hardware nay-sayers' get started, think about this: the Pandora happened, without Valve. Irrespective of commercial success (yet), the Pandora/Pyra community is positively thriving as an emergent platform. Linux, and a very open atmosphere, is at the core of why this works, at small scales; and also why it can scale, too.
What would the Pyra be like if gaben gave, like, a million bucks to people like EvilDragon and notaz and the rest of the Pyra team, and said: "kids, gimme 100,000 Pyra devices, and we'll put Steam on them for our customers" ..
Frankly, it could happen. I wish it would! Frankly it'd be the kind of bold move that would make sense to me, were I in a position to direct a few bucks. The thing is, whether Valve arrives on Steam or not, things like the culture which produced http://repo.openpandora.org/ are going to happen, regardless. May as well be a player, homie ..