- Valve says they don’t support the model of restricting players to a single device.
- They won’t be doing any exclusives, as they don’t believe it’s a good idea for them.
- They state that they’re treating the whole Steam library as their exclusives.
The Steam Machine has been a big topic of debate. On one hand, it is truly impressive how Valve has fit a complete PC into a tiny package, but on the other hand, the $1,000+ price tag is a huge letdown due to the insane memory prices.
The device works majorly like a console and is intended for couch gaming; however, it won’t be adopting one specific console thing. Valve has confirmed that Steam Machine won’t have any exclusive games at all.
Why it matters: The company has always been very customer-friendly, and they don’t want the players to be restricted to a single device. They want the whole library of Steam games to be available to all players.
Speaking to Bloomberg, Valve engineer Pierre-Loup Griffais explained why the company isn’t interested in doing any exclusives. He said restricting players to a single device isn’t a great model and they don’t support it.
Restricting where people can play a game I don’t think is a great model, at least for us. We’re much more interested in having the whole PC catalog as our ‘launch exclusive.
So, instead of launching a few exclusive games, in a way the entire Steam library is Steam Machine exclusive. In this way, players can pick a game and continue it on whatever device they prefer to play it on without getting locked out.
There were some rumors that Half Life 3 might be a Steam Machine exclusive, but that too seems highly unlikely now. But this is a great thing for the players, as the whole Steam library will be available for all regardless of the hardware.
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