CES 2025 Read and watch our complete CES coverage here Updated less than 47 seconds ago For over two decades, the video game world has revolved around three companies: Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft.
These platform holders have long controlled the conversation around games, with their consoles and flashy exclusives creating the framework for how we understand the business today.
It’s not that these were the only companies distributing games, as any PC player will tell you; it’s just that they had become the foundational power players that the rest of the industry often had to adapt around.
We’ve seen cracks in that dynamic during this current console generation, but Valve may have shattered it for good. During CES 2025, the company made some big plays of its own that solidified its growing hold on gaming outside of Steam.
In addition to bringing SteamOS to the Legion Go S, Valve tells The Verge that it will soon let players install the Steam Deck’s signature interface on any handheld.