Why would Valve need anyone to pick them up? They are doing great!
Valve was worth $3 billion in March, and growing. I seriously doubt they need anyone to "pick them up".
Releasing a console is far to expensive and risky. Did you know that even when the PS3 was $599 Sony took a loss selling them?
Nintendo is also loosing money on the Wii and 3DS.
Heck even Microsoft's Xbox division lost $229 million in April!