The Steam Box will run on Linux but Newell says it will be possible to install Windows on it. "We're not going to make it hard," he said.
Newell said the company was not planning to release a motion controller for the Steam Box but was interested in the possibilties of controllers that utilise biometric data.
He said: "Biometrics on the other hand is essentially adding more communication bandwidth between the game and the person playing it, especially in ways the player isn't necessarily conscious of. Biometrics gives us more visibility."
Newell added: "Also, gaze tracking. We think gaze tracking is going to turn out to be super important."
Valve has not yet revealed a release date for the Steam Box or how much it would cost but Ben Krasnow, an engineer at Valve, said the company had no plans to announce anything this year.
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