Former Xbox exec Major Nelson praises Valve's Steam Machine as "choice is always good," but doesn't think it should be dragged into a console war: "Not everything needs a winner or loser"

Black Steam Machine PC with beige backdrop.

A former Microsoft executive of over 20 years has given his two cents on Valve's Steam Machine.

For two decades, Larry Hryb (more famously known as Major Nelson) was Xbox's most visible frontman, and was director of programming for Xbox Live for a large portion of that time, so he knows a thing or two about the dreaded console wars that have fandoms pit plastic boxes and billion dollar corporations against each other.