The only thing Valve will do regarding their games being exclusive is keep them Steam

You're never gonna find Half-Life or Portal on GoG or Epic Games Store

EXACTLY

"Valve is gonna make Half Life 3 exclusive to Steam OS to force everyone to switch and really stick it to Microsoft" is such a poorly thought out fanboy console war driven take

Valve gets their money if someone buys Half-Life 3 regardless of if they play it on Windows or SteamOS or Bazzite or MacOS. That's what Valve really wants, to sell games. Hardware sales are nice but they won't kill game sales for it.

They don't understand that Valve is just offering the Steam Deck and GabeCube as options. They don't understand that plenty of people will stick to their more powerful PCs. They don't understand that Valve doesn't really care if you keep playing on Windows instead.

Oh this isn't just on the Steam forums unfortunately. I'm finding it all over the Internet whenever the GabeCube gets mentioned. Copers absolutely believing that Valve would spend the time and money developing a game to sell it to almost nobody. As if it's a console exclusive except for Linux.

And of course: massive "IF" on Half-Life 3 being real this time.

I'm pretty excited for the GabeCube, but it's not going to change the scale from 95% Windows and 3% Linux nearly enough to make it worth it for Valve to not sell Half-Life 3 to Windows users.

"Exclusive to Steam OS" is the dumbest cope ever.

I really thought they couldn't kill my interest in this game anymore than when they showed the open world desert that will have nothing of value in it.

But nope. They did manage to find a way to kill my interest even more!

Just gonna say it again, it's not too late for another delay and another restart of development.