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>I see Android winning against desktop Linux for most consumers Erm... maybe, but not for the consumers who are in Valve's target demographic. Valve sells AAA

>I see Android winning against desktop Linux for most consumers Erm... maybe, but not for the consumers who are in Valve's target demographic. Valve sells AAA video games, and while tiny systems might have the hardware to be able to play today's TF2 five years from now, their games will also have moved on. Android only works on PC at all through third-party forks, and certainly doesn't have GPU support. Whatever else you think of Canonical, they've been taking point on getting graphics driver support for Linux.

selectodude 13y ago
> their games will also have moved on. Valve Time seems to disagree.
- GeneralMayhem 13y ago
  Valve Time is a popular joke because of Half-Life, but if you set that aside they actually release things pretty consistently. With all the engine improvements and content updates, TF2 in 2013 is only barely comparable to TF2 in 2007 in terms of gameplay, and not at all in terms of system requirements to play at high quality. And apart from that, since the Orange Box in 2007, they've released major games in 2008 (L4D), 2009 (L4D2), 2011 (Portal 2), 2012 (CS:GO), and 2013 (DOTA 2). The only year they missed was 2010, but that was the year they released the OSX ports of all the Source games. They also rolled out Linux support this year, although I imagine the transition from OSX to Ubuntu was much less difficult than from Windows to OSX.