Valve's Gabe Newell Makes New Linux Comments

[Dukenukemx]

The future of gamming is android on smartphones, right now is PS3 and XBOX360, PC gamming is near to dead

Go Troll under a bridge.

[xeekei]

22 billons ? muajajaja source pls

Can Spanish people please learn that when you're speaking English, don't spell a laughing sound like that. It makes zero sense to the rest of us.

[z0id]

Can Spanish people please learn that when you're speaking English, don't spell a laughing sound like that. It makes zero sense to the rest of us.

Relevant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX9lGw5fIJI

[bakgwailo]

22 billons ? muajajaja source pls

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2013/03/28/despite-mobile-and-console-competition-pc-gaming-industry-rakes-in-20-billion-during-2012/

Forbes.

[tarceri]

I would like to know if they have considered contracting Mesa development it seems it would be in their best interest to have some rock solid open drivers which they have some control of fixing bugs for. If not it seems they are missing the whole advantage of backing an open source platform for their os

[andyprough]

22 billons ? muajajaja source pls

Gartner says $20 billion this year:
http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2614915

DFC Intelligence says $25 billion this year:
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...-this-year-dfc

I think the $5 billion difference in their numbers has to do with how they count the "mobile" device segment. I think you could count income for PC games when someone accesses a traditional online PC game through some kind of tablet or hybrid/convertible device.

[xeekei]

Relevant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX9lGw5fIJI

I literally laughed out semi-loud.

[mendieta]

Can Spanish people please learn that when you're speaking English, don't spell a laughing sound like that. It makes zero sense to the rest of us.

You obviously understood what the OP meant, so what's your point, again? Besides, of course, hinting at an alleged superiority in Native English speakers, which only reflects, poorly indeed, upon yourself, and not the OP.

[xeekei]

You obviously understood what the OP meant, so what's your point, again? Besides, of course, hinting at an alleged superiority in Native English speakers, which only reflects, poorly indeed, upon yourself, and not the OP.

English is my second language.

[mmstick]

The future of gamming is android on smartphones, right now is PS3 and XBOX360, PC gamming is near to dead

According to Valve, there are 75,000,000 PC gamers on Steam -- last year that was 60,000,000.Every year, Valve has posted significant increase in number of gamers on Steam. So much for PC gaming dying.