Hey, anyone up for starting our own Linux PC company and matching our release to some specific hardware? Anyone think that would actually work?
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I've spent money on stuff that was not as worthy, count me in
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Engadget Linux Stteam Living Room 65 M users
An interesting but short article here is the gist of it from Engadget:
If one makes a straight line graph of the increase for Steam, and such predictions SELDOME actually work, then in three years, Steam would eclipse Sony.Valve's Steam service for PC distribution and sales has over 65 million users playing its over 3,000 games, the company announced this afternoon. That's a 30 percent increase (15 million accounts) over the last 12 months -- not too shabby! -- putting the service's userbase well above that of Microsoft's Xbox Live (which has 48 million, according to MS). Not quite the 110 million that belong to Sony's PlayStation Network, but not too shabby.
The new Steam number comes ahead of Valve's planned hardware beta, which intends to test the three main components of the company's big living room push: SteamOS, Steam Controller, and Steam Machines. The first of those components, SteamOS, is a Linux-based navigation solution for gaming PCs
in the living room.
While in can be installed on any PC (and it's free), it'll come installed on the physical Steam Machines that Valve ships to 300 beta participants (alongside the aforementioned Steam Controller). That said, at 65 million users, you have 0.0005 percent chance of being chosen for the beta. Best of luck with that!
I find of particular interest the word "store" on the images, that means "Linux making money".
The "Beta"
Supposedly the "production' maby:
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