Friday, May 14th 2021
Valve's Gabe Newell Hints at Possible Plan for Consoles
Valve's head, Gabe Newell, has on Monday talked to the students at Auckland, New Zealand's Sancta Maria College. While Mr. Newell spoke to students, one of them has asked Mr. Newell about the company's plans for consoles and has recorded the response. The student then proceeded to upload the recording to Reddit, but, it was later deleted. However, we are in luck as Ars Technica reported on this and we have managed to get a bit of new information about what's coming from Valve and what we can expect. During the talk, a student asked Mr. Newell: "Will Steam be porting any games on consoles, or will it just stay on PC?"
To that, Mr. Newell responded by saying: "You will get a better idea of that by the end of this year... and it won't be the answer you expect. You'll say, 'Ah-ha! Now I get what he was talking about.'" This is a rather vague answer to a question and it doesn't give us much information, other than the fact that we can expect something towards the end of 2021. This could mean anything, so we are not sure yet. However, we will keep an eye on it and make sure to report every new information as it appears.
Sources:
Ars Technica, via Tom's Hardware
To that, Mr. Newell responded by saying: "You will get a better idea of that by the end of this year... and it won't be the answer you expect. You'll say, 'Ah-ha! Now I get what he was talking about.'" This is a rather vague answer to a question and it doesn't give us much information, other than the fact that we can expect something towards the end of 2021. This could mean anything, so we are not sure yet. However, we will keep an eye on it and make sure to report every new information as it appears.
46 Comments on Valve's Gabe Newell Hints at Possible Plan for Consoles
Although, I can't tell the difference between someone using a ~$1,000+ USD Smart Phone and cheap ~$40 USD TracFone purchased at CVS. Not at a distance anyway.
Even still, regardless of cost, a Smart phone is a weird Flex,......a very weird Flex indeed,...... :)
Everybody's got one, and no one really cares anymore,.....or at least I don't :)
I spent hours in HLA just looking around and grabbing stuff and placing them on top of my head. Then there's the occasional headcrab out of nowhere.
Once you get to Jeff... that's where I was really immersed. Just a little spoiler... you cant talk or breath in real life... unless you do something.
One can only dream :)
Or we could receive a steam app in consoles to play all the steam games we already own.
One can only dream part 2
Still might jump on it but with a diff HMD.
I will wait till I can pick up a HP G2 or something else.
"Console" lol, remind me how it worked with "steam machine".
I'm shocked there isn't a L4D VR game though - arizona sunshine and all the other zombie shooters have shown it can be done, but I guess it is a crowded market and Valve are trying to show the industry how to do VR games well (HLA being a great storytelling game with fantastic physics).
Also, Pavlov VR has a zombie mode that's a lot like Left 4 dead. They have even imported L4d Maps and they are amazing. Pavlov VR is still one of my favorite games. It has steam workshop. I can't play pancake multiplayer games anymore because of Pavlov VR. It's that good.