Valve Hiring Hardware Developers

Posted by Soulskill on Friday April 13, 2012 @06:10AM from the enjoy-those-steambox-rumors dept.

New submitter Canazza writes "According to Develop, 'PC games giant Valve wants to "invent whole new gaming experiences" and is looking for people to help create new hardware, the Washington studio has confirmed. Off the back of a wave of speculation that the studio is building its own games console – a rumour which Valve has not specifically denied – the company now appears to be increasing capacity of its hardware development division.' Is Valve designing a new console? Or is this an expansion of its biometric controls research? Either way, something big is going down at Valve."

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Would make sense but it's risky by Anonymous Coward · 2012-04-13 06:24 · Score: 0, Redundant

A Valve console would make sense. It would be an extension to Steam. However, hardware is always a enormous financial risk. I know Valves has cash on hands, but to this point?
The only point I'm not quite sure is, what OS would a Valve console run? Maybe this would explain what Valve is doing in recruiting Linux staff.