Valve har i dag løftet sløret for SteamOS, der - som navnet antyder - vil være et operativsystem, der er baseret på deres platform: Steam. Hele idéen bag systemet er at give folk mulighed for at få mere ud af Steam, end de får i dag.
Det amerikanske selskab nærmer sig noget af en milepæl i dets historie. Det såkaldte SteamOS vil ikke blot gavne Valve, men også hele spilindustrien i helhed vil have gavn af det. Firmaet har nemlig i sinde at gøre, så flere hundrede spiltitler er i stand til at køre på operativsystemet.
Valve skriver selv følgende omkring valget på netop et operativsystem:
As we’ve been working on bringing Steam to the living room, we’ve come to the conclusion that then environment best suited to delivering value to customers is an operating system built around Steam itself. SteamOS combines the rock-solid architecture of Linux with a gaming experience built for the big screen. It will be available soon as a free stand-alone operating system for living room machines.
Samtidig skriver firmaet bag den succesfulde spilplatform, at der vil komme adskillige tiltag, som ikke er at finde i den nuværende udgave af Steam. Først og fremmest er der In-home Streaming, Music, TV, Movies, Family Sharing og Family Options:
In the past, sharing Steam games with your family members was hard. Now you can share the games you love with the people you love. Family Sharing allows you to take turns playing one another’s games while earning your own Steam achievements and saving your individual game progress to the Steam cloud. The living-room is family territory. That’s great, but you don’t want to see your parents’ games in your library. Soon, families will have more control over what titles get seen by whom, and more features to allow everyone in the house to get the most out of their Steam libraries.
Den eksakte dato for lancering er ikke blevet offentliggjort endnu, men Valve har allerede bekræftet, at det vil være gratis at hente deres linux baserede operativsystem.
