In an unusual show of brevity, I just wanted to add a quick addendum to the post I made a few days ago regarding Valve's Steam distribution system and its newest feature, Steam Cloud. In an interview released yesterday, Valve President Gabe Newell disclosed that his companies physical media game sales have grown by less than 10% of late, while sales via Steam have risen almost 200%. Newell also expects that Steam sales will overtake Valve's physical game sales within the next three months. Also teased in the interview, the prospect of expanding Steam to include non game related digital artifacts, such as web bookmarks (can anyone say the next generation of Del.icio.us)?It just keeps getting more and more interesting.
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