Microsoft Is “Not Sweating It” About Steam Machines

Steam Box’s aims are quite simple and ambitious: make PC gaming as hassle-free as console’s and bring it to the living room. It is natural to see it as a threat to consoles, but it seems that Microsoft isn’t as worried about that as one would expect.

Microsoft’s Xbox Chief Product Officer Marc Whitten believes that Steam Machines will co-exist along with consoles without competing with them. “I think there’s space for both,” a-t-il déclaré. “I’m not sweating it.”

Whitten admitted that he hasn’t formalized an opinion about Steam Machines and their target audience or Valve’s plans for them. “I continue to think that PC gaming – the sort of uber configuration and I can change everything and I can mod – that’s an important thing and there’s a lot of people that wanna do that.” But is the number of those people large enough to make a dent in console sales? Whitten believe that this is quite unlikely.