Gaben says he'll make a hardware if he had to.
"If we have to sell hardware we will," Newell says. "We have no reason to believe we're any good at it; it's more we think that we need to continue to have innovation, and if the only way to get these kind of projects started is by us going and developing and selling the hardware directly then that's what we'll do."
In other words, Gabe Newell says he can make a video game hardware if the games are needed to.