Valve's Steam Machines might take a bite out of Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft

In a column a few days back, I mentioned the possibility of Valve going after Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony in the living room. Well, it didn't take long for Valve to confirm that by announcing its Steam Machines.

Sony, Microsoft and NIntendo cannot be happy about this. Their consoles have already had to weather the proliferation of mobile device gaming, and now Valve is aiming to directly muscle in on the traditional console business with an open system designed for the living room.

I've noted before that this is an exciting time for Linux gamers, but this announcement just kicks the adrenaline up to sky high levels! It's going to be a lot of fun watching the Steam OS platform take off in the next year or so.

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