Gabe Newell: "8 Windows is of catastrophe."

Gabe Newell some controversial opinions at casual connect, what is a sound business logic, high-tech industry-changing landscape temper last night of his argument.

Newell spoke last night in Seattle, Ed fries, Microsoft, and technologies of the future, a platform how evolution especially busy room Vice President of original Windows producer himself published games by 13 years affect playback in Benaroya Hall.

Source: VentureBeat

(Familiar, field Newell and valves, let us say) and game distribution learning Newell in the problems we are all doing will not in the future but said the player create move away value probably toward the center of the content specifically posited, note the content generation. "We children of Kansas,"Newell said,"made a hat make a virtual $ 150000 a year. Only the starting point ".

Newell just about video games ", think about products and services in the digital world", is not a change in technology. I.e. Microsoft looking picking this trend other companies are Newell is the road of development of software, and close the Apple platform hardware. Development restrictions off ??? the full sense may shift from the PC or PC game designers, hard times. According to Newell "in saying and are looking for a platform ' is steam, valve, free rider, we have been benefiting from all PCs and the Internet, we how to out figure should continue the open platform '".

So as a bastion of course, for companies targeting Linux open-source game development is, it is easy isn't it. "Issues that interfere with Linux" Newell, "and said the game. People will drive the purchasing behavior of consumers don't realize how important the game is ".

He continued, "we are to steam to run 2500 games on Linux as easily as possible then. It is a hedging strategy. It is a catastrophe for all of the Windows 8 PC space. I think we're losing some of the exiting the market and leading Pc Oem. Margins and discarded for a bunch of people, I think. True if [it will be good choices. ?

Not put it is to say and Newell also too many shares true potential for the game "post-touch" technology at least touch screen trends. In the concept of these processes is the idea of the tongue enter ( Yes we're serious ), also he puts eye-tracking "your eyes is a troublesome behavior. Some of those innovations are already happening, but is the question of affordability and applications, Newell are acutely sensitive the two issues.

(Pictured above) especially cannot game easily to the new framework, developers, rather expected some UI mockups is may seem not that little steam is a guarantee of the Windows 8. And it is, know whether Newell at the helm for Windows, Linux, OS X, Chrome OS or anyone following responds to the market transformation of the land of unexpected valve what is positioned.

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