If the steambox doesn't ship, in the box, some new input method, any future new input methods are doomed to be used by a tiny minority of the market. If you're

If the steambox doesn't ship, in the box, some new input method, any future new input methods are doomed to be used by a tiny minority of the market. If you're a dev and want to make a game, do you make it so that it can only be used by a few thousand people, or by everybody on the platform? I think Nintendo learned this lesson (somewhat) the hard way until they released the Wii. Peripherals don't sell.