Job post confirms Valve is working on gaming hardware

Job post confirms a Valve console is in the works
Valve to put console market under pressure

Rumours that Valve is to make its own hardware moved up a notched this week with a job post hinting that this is indeed what the company is planning to do.

The posting is for all to see on Valve's official site and it is for an electronics engineer who will be working closely with Valve's hardware team. Yes, hardware team.

"Join our highly motivated team that's doing hardware design, prototyping, testing, and production across a wide range of platforms," explains the post.

"We're not talking about me-too mice and gamepads here – help us invent whole new gaming experiences."

A little bit of the in- and output

Other than this, it gives little away but the rumour that a Valve console is in the works looks to be bang on the money – although the hardware seems to be some time off.

This is because the post is asking for someone to "work with the hardware team to conceive, design, evaluate, and produce new types of input, output, and platform hardware."

To us,this doesn't sound like something that's even at prototype stage yet.

Valve has always been a company that's regarded as one of the best in the gaming world – so if anyone could create a set-top that melds the efficiency of Steam with console gaming, then it would be them.

It looks like the Xbox 720 and the PS4 will have some competition when they are finally released.

Via Engadget

Marc Chacksfield

Marc Chacksfield is the Editor In Chief, Shortlist.com at DC Thomson. He started out life as a movie writer for numerous (now defunct) magazines and soon found himself online - editing a gaggle of gadget sites, including TechRadar, Digital Camera World and Tom's Guide UK. At Shortlist you'll find him mostly writing about movies and tech, so no change there then.