According to Gabe Newell, Managing Director of Valve, Steam is still showing growth despite a steady decline in PC sales. According to Newell, there is still life in gaming side of the PC market and both that same market and Steam is definitely immune to those same declines.

Speaking at Linuxcon, Newell noted that PC market will eventually see "significant restructuring", or market exits but that despite the huge declines in PC sales, gaming side of the PC market is growing and Steam has gone up by 76 percent year-on-year. Newell also noted that Google is definitely going in the wrong direction and should have been more focused on the openness of the platform rather than what they been doing so far.

Newell noted that PC is definitely the platform where we will see most innovation in the games market and not on consoles which can be considered as "closed systems". As expected, Newell also believes that Linux is part of gaming's "future".

Source: via VG247.com.