00:00In a shocking revelation, it turns out that Gabe Newell, Valve co-founder and operator of the game industry's largest
00:07navy, is sometimes wrong about things.
00:09Back in 2011, in a recently rediscovered interview with, um, us, Newell said that the idea that Steam is somehow
00:18the answer to digital distribution just wasn't right.
00:21It ignores the fact that every two or three years, something is going to change dramatically, said Newell at the
00:27time.
00:28If you stand still, and you're not doing the things you need to, to be valuable in the future, you're
00:33going to be left behind rapidly.
00:35What was Steam's biggest threat at the time? The upstart origin client from EA, which, well, hasn't exactly set the
00:42world on fire in the intervening 14 years.
00:45In 2026, Steam is still dominant. Sure, it might not have stood still, but it hasn't changed dramatically, and it's
00:52definitely still the answer to digital distribution on PC.
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