14 DAY TRIAL // Tim Sweeney, one of the founders of Epic Games, says that SteamOS will be a success as long as Valve understands that it needs to support it without trying to control all content launched on it.
The executive says that many developers are driven away from both Sony and Microsoft and their consoles by the fact that no updates and no DLC can be launched without going through a certification process.
Sweeney is quoted by PCGamesN as saying that, “The possibility of Steam Box as a real, genuinely open platform based on Linux with multiple manufacturers that’s jump-started by Valve but isn’t absolutely controlled by Valve in the same way that Microsoft and Sony control their platform is very interesting.”
Valve is at the moment preparing both special hardware and the SteamOS for a beta stage in the first half of next year.