Quote Originally Posted by Uncle Big Hands View Post
The only thing I wonder is there stuff you can get on their console you can't already get from their PC market?

If not, I really don't see the point.
It's not really a console, it's a plug-and-play living room PC that'll be geared towards running Steam exclusively. So if they go with Linux as their distro, which is likely, it'll be limited to whatever studios port over. But with how much Valve is trying to entice studios to make Linux ports, the game could be getting shaken up a lot in coming years.

Valve is mostly doing this for people who want the Steam experience but don't want to build a PC, but they're always gonna cater to anyone who wants to build their own machine. They want as open of an eco system as possible for gaming to continue innovation - the reason they're a brilliant company is because of how they've pushed for these sorts of things for so long but still have been incredibly successful at monetizing it.