But if Valve decides to create the best goshdarned dev platform in the world, they must then develop, maintain and update this platform at all times, substantially increasing their workload compared to the task of maintaining a cross-platform client.
Then they need to chase licenses, then they need to get hardware on board, then they need to convince developers that their brand new platform will be sustainable long-term.
And then after all that they need to get consumers on board. The millions of Steam users who already have a PC/Mac/etc that they’re happy with – would they jump ship, do you think? Would they go and buy what would ostensibly be another competitor in the console market? Especially since most of these people would either believe PCs are superior to consoles or already own one or more existing consoles?
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