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Gabe Newell has revealed in an interview from the Penny Arcade Report, that if Valve thought it was necessary, they would not hesitate in developing hardware and attempting to compete with companies like Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony. Gabe did, however, make sure to mention that he would prefer Valve to keep working as they are currently are, producing software for platforms that are already developed and manufactured by other companies. The full quote can be seen below:
"Well, if we have to sell hardware we will. We have no reason to believe we’re any good at it, it’s more we think that we need to continue to have innovation and if the only way to get these kind of projects started is by us going and developing and selling the hardware directly then that’s what we’ll do.
It’s definitely not the first thought that crosses our mind; we’d rather hardware people that are good at manufacturing and distributing hardware do that. We think it’s important enough that if that’s what we end up having to do then that’s what we end up having to do."
You can read the full interview in the source link below.