I think Gabe has the picture nailed down perfectly. That's exactly my analysis, and I'm pretty sure I'm not happy with it.

On the other hand, I have quite a few Steam games I can only play when connected to the Internet, so I choose to understand what he says exactly true to his word, as an analysis from his company's point of view, not from a FOSS guy's point of view. Steam is not a white knight in shining armor, and neither is Apple. Whichever baron takes control of the land will impact us, but we won't magically get a republic, to put things in "political-fantasy" terms.

Well, sure. It is taking MS, Nintendo, and Sony 6 years to update their consoles with faster graphics and processors and newer technology. They are threat to themselves only.

What sort of simplistic games does Newell think people want to play?

Will the Apple TV run Crysis 3 at high resolution?
 

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What sort of simplistic games does Newell think people want to play?

 

Will the Apple TV run Crysis 3 at high resolution?
 

I bet Angry birds has more players than crysis, so more people want angry birds.

If responsible parents start to tell kids to buy their own games, instead of paying 60 bucks for each one (or going to piratebay), or to go run outside/play football, you would realize how the number of crysis 3 players would aproach to 0 very quickly.

I mean, games should be for fun, playing with friends and family. Getting fat, full of acne, closed on a room all week, loosing the ability to have a decent conversation with someone else without using a mic and headphones, IS NOT fun. Sorry to burst your bubble, but this is the tipical "pc gamer", the tipical "crysis 3 HD" guy.

We are reaching a new era for gaming, and that's great. Gaming was so much fun when all the guys would go to lan houses together or a bar and play CS 1.6 for a one hour, than having a drink, talk, see a few girls... Look at what we have now.

Thank god for Wii. I hope Apple does the right thing.

It might threaten Steam but it doesn't threaten Valve. They can still release their games on the Mac, iOS (and AppleTV?) App Stores if they want.

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I think Gabe actually needs to go outside for a walk instead of designing amazing 3D worlds at his desk that you can walk around in. In fact, I think I need to go for a walk too.

I went outside once.

The graphics weren't that great.

So, Gabe thinks the Steam Box will only have a half...life with Apple in the picture, eh?

interesting. I can already AirPlay my iPhone's apps Game's music to my tv. Only a matter of some coding (I would think) to put the video over AirPlay from the App Game to my TV.

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Gabe Newell is a fool.
As will be borne out on his continued obsessive-compulsive resistance in bringing neither "Half-Life" nor "Portal" to iPad
& not being at all forthcoming with "Half-Life 3" news.

But in this particular instance, he's a dope because that entire statement is multi-levelly FALSE.
Consider ....
1] Living room gaming involves SOTA hardware & hundreds of millions of dollars in R & D investment to make that SOTA hardware.
You think Apple's gonna do that?

Plus, that SOTA hardware has to sell in the tens of millions before developers will be interested in spending tens of millions of dollars in making games for it.
And in order for it to sell in the tens of millions, there must be AAA games ready to go at launch.
Get the picture?


2] Apple's only "interested", if you wanna use that word, in mobile casual gaming.
You know: the 99¢ "Angry Farts" & the like.
But they've already "conquered" that.
In fact, they invented "Mobile Casual Gaming" outright.
And you can't say: "What are you talking about?
Apple didn't conquer mobile casual gaming much less invent it.
What about Nintendo?"
You can't say that because Nintendo compacts are not casual gaming.
Nobody pays $40-50 for a "casual" game.


So you see, Gabe Newell's statement is a falsehood on so very many fronts.
In fact, you can file this one under: MASSIVE FAIL.

I agree.  Apple is not going to try to break into the console gaming market.  If they do try and add games to Apple TV, it will be small casual games like Angry Birds, not the big AAA type of games you see on Playstation, XBox, or Wii.  I can see how Gabe is worried since SteamBox is a bit of a cross between big games and small indie games.  If he's targeting casual gamers with his platform, it could be a problem.