In this week's Steam Machine announcement, one of the biggest core strengths of Valve's massive PC store operation was often overlooked in the discourse.
The Steam Machine looks like it won't be as powerful as the PS5 or Xbox Series X on paper, but it honestly doesn't matter. Its biggest strength is arguably the Steam store itself, whose mature dev tools and open publishing practices has delivered a stream of mega-viral indie hits that PlayStation and Xbox often only enjoy delayed access — if indeed they get access at all.
