Steam on PS vita and expanding the platform

[DoomTheory]

With the breadth and width of the steam platform it's time to expand. A proprietary hand held is out of the question with all the existing competition, but if the steam COMMUNITY spearheads an initiative to reinvigorate the already existing relationship with Sony and it's incredibly full featured, moblie devise the, PS vita, the possiblities are extrodinary. It's got everything, we know it: Input options, power, connectiblity, most importantly every one wins. Sony befits buy selling more units, steam users gain a new outlets to play, and steam expands to a whole new audience... the casual portable gamer!

Lets be real, we understand the limitation in storage and programing/usability hangups but baby-steps. How many great platformers are available on steam? 2.5d action adventure games like bastion? Ultimately, This is doable! So there's no reason to not see this in two year or less.

I look forward to hearing some feedback. Sincerely, Pablo Rivera.

[BurnEverything]

Ugh. I'd KILL to have steam on the PS Vita... but what are the odds of that happening? One can only dream...

[E'xin]

It`s a great idea but it`s not as easy as you think.
First thing that I thought about when I read this was the 'SteamBox'. If PSVita would have Steam on it it would mean that the future of SteamBox could be even more wonky.
Expect of that there is a compatibility issue. All those games would have to be made for specific hardware. What you would get than is 2 versions of each game that would be for the PC and PSVita (same as in the PSStore that many games have PSVita version and PS3). That would lead to higher development costs.
BUT if Steam would be compatible with PS4 (yes Playstation 4) that could be 'easier' because of the known x86 architecture.

I think that everyone would want to have Steam as their unified gameshop platform on pc, mac, mobile phones and handheld because it is the greatest market.

I would at least want to have the Steam app on more than only my phone and with bit more options than now. Like when the PS4 wil come out it wil come with a mobile app that wil make it possible to buy the game (like steam app) and install the game on your home console. So Steam could maybe register on which pc`s/mac`s your account is registered and give the possibility to buy and install the game on specific machine.