Valve takes on iron

In the vacancy of "industrial designer" on its website, Valve finally confirmed what many have been saying lately - the intention to deal with the release of computer hardware. Valve says bluntly: “We are disappointed with the lack of innovation in the field of computer hardware, so we get down to business.”

The position says that “even the simplest control, the keyboard and the mouse, have not changed significantly in the past few years,” but the company doesn’t indicate exactly what equipment the designer will have to work on. Even it indicates literally the following

There is a real void in the market, and the opportunities to create a new user experience go unnoticed.

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According to rumors, Valve is preparing to release its game console for the Steam platform (the so-called Steam Box), but the company itself rejects them and says that it has no plans in this regard "for the near future." The idea behind the Steam Box is easily guessed - if the rumors are true, then Valve wants to become an exemplary analogue of Google and Android in the mobile world, laying the foundations and becoming the guarantor of the growth of an open Steam-based ecosystem that goes beyond personal computers. Thus, the company will immediately open up new directions for itself outside the constantly decreasing market of computer games and take a bite out of a huge cake, now belonging to game consoles.