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Windows 8, Future of PC gaming - Gabe Newell talks
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 12:32 pm Reply with quote
Gabe is the head of Valve - a lot of the games distributed thru Steam, are made using Valve development.

Anyways, Gabe once upon a time worked for MS. And with the intro of a tablet-focussed OS this fall, the question of where is Windows going - open platform per the status quo - or are they beginning to circle the software while making for a closed platform .... interesting read.


"I think that Windows 8 is kind of a catastrophe for everybody in the PC space. I think that we’re going to lose some of the top-tier PC [original equipment manufacturers]. They’ll exit the market. I think margins are going to be destroyed for a bunch of people. If that’s true, it’s going to be a good idea to have alternatives to hedge against that eventuality. But when you start thinking about a platform, you have to address it. You have to address mobile. You have to look at what’s going to happen post-tablet. If you look at the mouse and keyboard, it was stable for about 25 years. I think touch will be stable for about 10 years. I think post-touch, and we’ll be stable for a really long time — for another 25 years. I think touch will be this intermediate…."


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