The industry is shook at the minute, thanks to Valve entering the home console space with the long-fabled Steam Machine, now an official piece of hardware. While it's easy to compare the device to an Xbox, as Valve is another PC corporation moving toward consoles, a former Microsoft exec believes the Steam Machine will actually benefit the publisher.
"This is great news for Xbox and their new direction forward," tweets Mike Ybarra, former Blizzard president and, previously, corporate vice president of Xbox and Windows. "They simply no longer have to spend resources on making a device, or helping third party manufacturers to make a device." There's "no better partner" than Valve and PC, and Microsoft should recognize that, he argues.
