Valve CEO: Open Source Linux is the future of the game

Http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/29929.html, founder and CEO of >valve Newell (Gabe Newell), said in a keynote speech at the Wednesday LinuxCon Conference, Linux is the future of the game, hinting that a Linux based game host will be released next week.

To prove the bright future of Linux, Newell mentions the valve company's online gaming platform steam. Since the launch of steam last spring, developers have launched 198 games on the platform.

Newell says the game will become a node of the interconnected economy. In an interconnected economy, the vast majority of goods and services in the future will be created by individuals rather than companies.

To illustrate the bright future of Linux, it goes back to the era when PC manufacturers use patented technology for market monopolies. By blocking competitors, PC makers have made the emerging open systems and proprietary computer hardware less relevant. Today, PC games are going through innovation, and the most interesting development comes from the open source community.

Newell says proprietary systems can hinder the pace of development in the gaming industry. For example, it took valve 6 months to get Apple to approve an upgrade for one of its ipad games. This will not happen in a Linux based open source environment.

In recent years, PC sales have declined year by year. On the other hand, PC game sales have not gone down, although open-source, innovative gaming systems have emerged. The popularity of the game causes the line between the game creator and the game consumer to become blurred. For example, the Corps fortress (Team Fortress) Community development game is 10 times times the game developed by valve developers.

Newell's speech seemed to imply that Linux could be the basic technology for game consoles, unlocking the binding between computer hardware and its proprietary systems, allowing the steam game to enter the consumer's living room. Linux, he says, can be a unified platform for connecting mobile devices, living rooms and games. Consumers want the game system to be simple, no longer tied to computer hardware, and forced to buy consoles, controllers, and games that run only on one platform.

Previously, the market has long been rumored valve will launch a "Steam Box (steam box)" New game host. If this is true, it seems to be centered on Linux.