Linux as a gaming platform, especially for Valve is genius. There of tons of PC games that with a bit of porting (and adding controller support) can be re-released and re-sold to the console gamers. And as we all know console gamers spend a lot more $$$ than PC gamers. And Valve is going to be in the middle of it all, genius.
There of tons of PC games that with a bit of porting (and adding controller support) can be re-released and re-sold to the console gamers.
This isn't really true, either on the porting end or the sell-to-console-gamers end. Porting most PC games to Linux is a nontrivial undertaking (because, yeah, most big developers still use Direct3D and rewrite for the PS3 using PSGL--the PS3 gets half-assed and it usually shows).
Then you have to take into account the nearly-guaranteed hardware problem: for it to be competitive with the next generation of consoles it's going to end up specced around or worse than the XBox Next or the PS4 (and we already know what those look like.
