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The Xbox One is Microsoft’s latest gaming console and at the moment, the competition between Microsoft and Sony is pretty fierce, but can it compare to the likes of PC gaming? We know that the Xbox One has done pretty well for itself so far and has managed to sell 3 million units in 2013 alone, but are those number sufficient enough for Valve to get worried? Apparently not. Speaking during CES, Valve’s Gabe Newell was asked by a member of the audience what he thought about Microsoft’s 3 million Xbox One units sold to date. Well apparently it was not enough to be impressed as Newell reportedly shrugged off the figures and said, “Well, it’d take a while for them to catch up. I mean, we’re at 65 million,” in reference to Steam’s user base at the moment.

As it stands Steam plays home to many games, a lot of them blockbuster titles, although companies such as Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft could rest easy as Steam’s platform was mainly targeted towards PC gamers. However it seems that those companies might have something to worry about as Steam has recently announced a whole new set of Steam Machines which have been designed to invade your living room space, encroaching on territory that has been dominated by the likes of Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft over the past several years. Given that these Steam Machines not only come at various price points with hardware ranging from acceptable to high-end, Valve might have given those companies something to seriously worry about.

If Valve’s Steam Machines were to take off, that 3 million figure will definitely pale in the face of what’s to come.

Valve’s Gabe Newell Not Fazed By Xbox One Sales Figures original content from Ubergizmo.

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When will we be able to expect Half-Life 3? 2014? 2015? Well whatever it is, Valve seems to be denying the existence of the game at the moment, despite the mountain of rumors which we have been hearing about recently. After all Half-Life has to be one of the more iconic franchises in the video game industry and it would make sense for Valve to capitalize on that, wouldn’t it? After all given the success of the Half-Life franchise, it would be almost easy money for the company to create sequel after sequel of the game, but as it turns out as easy and tempting as it would be, it is not in Valve’s culture to do so.

Speaking in an interview with The Washington Post, Valve’s Gabe Newell revealed why the company does not take the easy route out and just produce sequel after sequel. “When we started out we were a single-player video game company that could have been really successful just doing Half-Life sequel after Half-Life sequel, but we collectively said let’s try to make multiplayer games even though there’s never been a commercial successful multiplayer game.” Of course there is nothing wrong with churning out sequel after sequel. In fact companies such as Ubisoft have no qualms about releasing Assassin’s Creed titles on a yearly basis because that’s how confident they are of the franchise.

What do you guys think? Do you think that constant releases will devalue a franchise, or are you, like most gamers, starting to get impatient that Valve has yet to make any Half-Life 3 announcements?

Gabe Newell Explains Why Valve Doesn’t Churn Out Half-Life Sequels original content from Ubergizmo.