OS market? No one said that. Someone said that Valve want to enter the hardware space. That means things with a plastic shell and a printed circuit board that does things. Valve have an R&D team working on some possible avenues to walk down (it's probably just input devices).

I'm gonna need to lie down.

They don't actually do this.

Uninterested. Give me more "open" PC stuff, less meaningless closed-platform crap. And Valve thinks in terms of closed platforms since the beginning of times (well, from 2004 onward at least)....

Useless platform, never heard anything good about it other than its reveal.

agreed its basically just a tablet with 2 playstation move controllers screwed together if they are gonna make a tablet dedicated to gaming go make what Nintedo is doing with WiiU

They asked me to fill out a survey recently about my computer specs. I wonder if they are going to use this info from all the gamers to develop this new platform. If they require me to buy their hardware in order to play games, then they will lose me as a customer for good. I will gladly buy my games from Amazon, GG and GOG. They are starting to get a big head like Sony did with the launch of the PS3 and look where that got them. Sony has been bleeding money for the last 3 years. Do not take gamers for granted, they can easily go elsewhere with their money.

I hope Valve don't. I'm happy with ASUS, Gigabyte and MSI releasing quality parts already. Finish HalfLife 3 already Valve.

Maybe if we make enough fat jokes this will never be released?
This seems to be the Youtube consensus re Ep3 in any case.

Gabe Newell is so fat that whenever he steps on the scales it says: "To be continued."

Fortunately Mother Nature always creates a state of equilibrium.

Valve gets some grudging respect from me for admitting that keyboard and mouse are pretty dated and far from ideal at this point.

Yes, I said it, KB&M fucking suck ass, it sounds like some game developers are on board now too. I'm glad to hear it. Razer, Steelseries, and a lot of others have made bank on this fact, I'd like to see some actual innovation in this area, though, instead of bandaids.

Oh, yeah, you know what I'm saying, MOTION GAMING FOREVER!

Okay, I'm not really saying that, but I had you going there, didn't I? Still, I'm deadly serious about everything before that motion gaming part.
Umm, if they dislike Windows 8, the result would be working on an OS, not hardware. Unless you think they can leverage their browser based monstrosity of a client into an actual OS they're stuck with Win 8, the only way they're getting off it is to move not only themselves, but a good part of their library to something else, and lmfao, not happening.
I played the WiiU at PAX... yeah, it's less than good... Games have to be specifically designed to keep you from having to use right analog and buttons at the same time on that clusterfuck of a tablet, due to placement this is much worse than PS3 or XBox 360, it's fucking unusable, and some of their games are demanding precisely that...

Honestly if Valve released a "Steam friendly PC" with good specs and almost guaranteed compatibility due to developers being highly aware of its existence that would be a very interesting thing. Assuming it was still completely open and ran standard Windows, anyway.

I am guessing this will end up more in the peripheral arena though.

Careful what you wish for... http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-systems/razer-blade

Another interesting question would be with Valve's sudden (in corporate terms) interest in Linux, do they plan to use that instead of Windows for said "console".

I think ultimately depending how things pan out they may use Linux but I'm not convinced they have a solid idea of what their plans are themselves yet. I get the impression they are just throwing ideas around and putting things into place just in case Windows 8 does become the exercise in lock-in that many people fear.

I can't really think of a piece of hardware that Valve could produce (that wasn't a huge gamble) that anybody would care about and the market doesn't already have covered.

Why in the world would Valve even bother getting into HW. This is akin to the fine people that make twinkies, reinventing the twinkie. I guess Gabe was thinking about twinkies when he made this decision. "Yee-Haw".

www.ign.com/articles/2012/09/09/valve-reveals-gaming-headset-big-picture-test-date
Valve's Project Glass. Just don't walk too far away from the outlet :P