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Xbox's Phil Spencer praises new Steam Machine console: 'It's an open platform built on choice'

TL;DR: Xbox Gaming CEO Phil Spencer praises Valve's new Steam Machine, a hybrid console-PC running SteamOS with 4K 60FPS gaming and open platform support. His comments highlight the growing trend ...
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Xbox has become a Game Pass machine and nothing more — Is it enough to justify Microsoft's console over a costly gaming PC?

My opinion may seem irrational or even fanboyish, and I fully expect to see a barrage of comments disagreeing with me, as well as a platoon of the Internet's finest coming to agree. Console wars are ...
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Will Microsoft truly support Xbox's existential threat, Steam Machine?

Excitement abounds for Valve's quirky cuboid, Steam Machine. But the console-PC hybrid sounds awfully a lot like what Microsoft is hoping to accomplish with its next-generation hardware. Even in an ...
The Escapist

Will the Steam Machine take the Xbox’s place in the console wars?

While Microsoft has denied stepping away from hardware production outright, there’s no denying that the company’s decreasing reliance on first-party publishing will leave a gap in the console gaming ...
IGN

"SteamOS will take off and your Store revenue will only go up."

A former Xbox executive has called on Valve to allow third-parties to use SteamOS to make their own Steam Machines, amid concern over the price of the next-gen living room PC. Now, Mike Ybarra, former ...