Can't tell if this is suppose to be some sort of PR thing. Are they serious? They would get stomped! You need to be of Nintendo like status to try and introduced new hardware, if in fact what I'm thinking he is meaning is true. That's some pretty serious ambition, I'm not gonna lie.

Well now, this is misleading! The original interview has nothing to do with Valve making a console. He's talking about how he is excited about wearable computers and their potential and how he would like to make software for them but there isn't a hardware market for them. And he talks about why he isn't saying anything about Half-Life 3. GI, this is really bad journalism. You gave an eye-catching headline to this article and mislead your readers. Linking to the article is nice, but it is huge and not many people are actually going to read it. That was really low on your part.

What about trying steam on the Wii U & Next Xbox/Xbox 720?

Are any companies really raking in cash with hardware? It's mostly software sales, isn't it? Why would they want to get in on that? We certainly don't need another system to buy.

Valve, just, just shut up. Please, I can't take it anymore.

To be honest, I could see a Steam-based gaming console absolutely dominating the competition. Assuming you could choose between Controller or Keyboard-and-Mouse for many of the games, coupled with the idea that you would have a tried-and-true system (as opposed to PC's are extremely difficult to use for those of us who don't understand them thoroughly) it could really be an major step for Gaming.

Way to grab a headline again Gabe. Anyone who sees this as anything but a marketing attempt by the industries biggest attention grabber is fooling themself. MAKE HALF-LIFE 3 and shut up!!!

Maybe they could make hardware that speeds up the process of HL3!

I love valve but I accepted the fact that I won't see half life 3 in my life time they're to busy with other things. they remind me of leonardo da vinci, alway starting something but never finishing.

I want this attitude towards innovation and invention in gaming to be much more rampant in the industry.

hmmm Very tempting. They must be talking about a real life Portal Gun in development O_o

It's like they are doing everything but making Half Life 3.

At this point I don't see any way for Valve to stay relevant. The majority of their recent success has come from buying mod's and hiring their developers - see Counter-Strike and DoD. Portal and L4D are their only relevant games and neither Half-Life 3 nor Half-Life 2 Ep 3 will be developed. They pretty much took the story in an unsustainable direction. Frankly they should make Left 4 Dead 3 and expand greatly upon it - zombies will always be successful, especially considering its the only good co-op arcade zombie game. As PC Gamer said (or was it GI?), Valve could live off of Steam profits. They have done more to change gaming than pretty much anyone, including Miyamoto (that's right I said it). Most of that change isn't for the better, either, as GI touched on in March issue - XBL, PSN, and Steam as well as Nintendo all have the same policy: Once we pull the plug, you're screwed, and we have no obligation whatsoever to continue offering you access to anything. If you read the Steam EULA deep enough, that's buried in there. XBL put it in an easier location to find.

i might but it

Everyone here is acting like a Valve Console running on Steam OS would be great. Do you understand what you're saying? Do you forget how terrible Steam was 10 years ago? Have you read the Steam EULA? You absolutely do not want this - the console would be heavily cloud based and even if you could store or play your games offline on the console, it would be terrible. Okay maybe not terrible but I would not trust them. I am all in support of being able to download and install your games whenever you need or want, as I hate hanging onto PC discs, but I would not wish for a Steam console without an absurd amount of user trials.

You know what this means... we're gonna have to wait even longer for Half-Life 3...

It's such a shame that Valve can only count to 2.

a valvestation 3 sounds good to me  :)

OR they can continue to make games, and be good at that. Cause let's face it whether you like Half-Life or not, you know you wanna see 3 get made so people will stop b*tching about it. Much like how I wouldn't mind marijuana being legalized just to shut the pot heads up. Just saying.

Wonder what they'd call it...and I wonder if they could actually compete with the big boys.