Despite the failure of the Steam Machine, Valve does not reject the possibility of developing its own hardware, but also reaffirms its commitment to its operating system based on Linux, SteamOS.
Valve's Steam Machines aroused a lot of interest among video game fans, but, despite being interesting products, they had the problem of having a higher price than a computer by parts, they were more expensive than consoles and the fact of being able updating the hardware, it was not enough and convincing. Valve wants to continue betting strongly on Linux and with the Steam Machine, SteamOS was presented, an operating system based on Linux, for which they have bet very heavily on the company.
On company blog, it is explained that they are compromised with SteamOS and Linux. The reason for removing the Steam Machines page from the platform menu is because this page hardly received any traffic, therefore, it made little sense to maintain it. Valve recognizes that these machines have allowed it to learn more about the Linux gaming market, allowing it to make the decision to improve collaboration with the open platform, offer high-quality support for Vulkan, as well as improve tools and support. for controllers.
Valve claims to be working on other possibilities under Linux, but cannot yet provide data on this. The company does not seem ready to give data on future plans, more recently Gabe Newell admitted feeling jealous of Nintendo's ability to develop its own hardware and its own titles for this hardware. The company also believes that it has the ability to develop any hardware project, in addition, they have highlighted that there are games in the development phase.
This opens speculation about a new Steam platform, possibly portable, based on its own SteamOS operating system and open source or what is the same, under Linux. We will be very attentive to any movement of the company.
