14 DAY TRIAL // Valve has confirmed at its CES 2014 panel that it currently has over 65 million users on its Steam digital distribution service. As such, the upcoming Steam Machines computers already have an advantage over the PS4 or Xbox One next-gen consoles.
Valve appeared at CES 2014 yesterday to reveal all sorts of details about the Steam Machines initiative, which will see all kinds of compact computers appear from different hardware manufacturers, each designed for gaming and for the SteamOS operating system.
When asked by members of the press about the competition with the PS4 and Xbox One consoles, Valve's Gabe Newell confirmed, via Kotaku, that both Sony and Microsoft needed to catch up, as Steam already has 65 million users.
"We're at 65 million. Part of why we think that this is the right direction to go in is that we can benefit from everything that people have already done. If I buy a game on Steam and am running it on Windows, I can go to one of the Steam Machines and I already have the game."
Valve has yet to confirm if it's going to build its own Steam Machine but, until then, quite a few vendors have been revealed for the initiative.