Although 14 manufacturers will be releasing their own Steam Machines, Valve won't be releasing its own version, as the company views itself as more of a catalyst for its hardware partners, Valve co-founder Gabe Newell said at CES Monday.

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"We're going to continue to make that decision as we go along," Newell said. "We've been happy with the results of doing hardware development with clients. We have plans to build more machines, but we also expect that users will be really happy with the range of offerings from these hardware manufacturers.”Valve has already made a handful of its own Steam Machines , Newell said, but the company has no plans to release it to the public.“I mean, we’ve made 300 [machines], which is a very tiny step," Newell said. "We’ll make what we need to. We really view our role in this as enabling. So we’ll do whatever is going to be helpful to other hardware manufacturers – whether that’s with controller design or building specific kinds of boxes."

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