In Video Game Awards 2012 during a brief meeting , Newell admitted that its is ready to compete with the next generation consoles.
According to the developer, the public response to the emergence of Steam Big Picture, adaptation for TV service digital distribution of games, was better than expected. The next step will be the transfer of Valve Big Picture to the operating system Linux, which will give greater flexibility to create their own hardware, which will be able to compete with Sony's PlayStation and Microsoft.
Additionally Valve is going to standardize the configuration to the game developers were counting on certain hardware features final decision.
The mysterious device must be born in the next year.