Microsoft’s head of gaming, Phil Spencer, has welcomed Valve’s announcement of its console-like PC, the Steam Machine.
Introduced on Wednesday alongside a brand new VR headset and controller, Steam Machine is a six-inch console-like dice with “over six occasions the horsepower of Steam Deck”, which is designed to permit PC video games to be performed on the TV.
It’s a tool that sounds just like Microsoft’s personal reported plans for the following Xbox, which is allegedly set to be a hybrid system able to taking part in video games throughout a number of shops, together with Steam.
Commenting on the Steam Machine information on X, Phil Spencer claimed that it aligned with Xbox’s personal imaginative and prescient for gaming throughout {hardware} units.
“Gaming strikes ahead when gamers and builders have extra methods to play and create, particularly throughout open platforms,” he wrote. “Increasing entry throughout PC, console, and handheld units displays a future constructed on selection, core values which have guided Xbox’s imaginative and prescient from the beginning.
“As one of many largest publishers on Steam, we welcome new choices for gamers to entry video games in all places. Congrats on in the present day’s launch.”
Chatting with Eurogamer, Valve PR Kaci Aitchison Boyle claimed the announcement of Steam Machine stemmed from its PC gaming expertise, and never what console makers like Xbox have been planning.
“We sometimes simply work again from our personal expertise taking part in PC video games and what we want was doable to do and what we hear our customers say as effectively,” she mentioned.
Xbox president Sarah Bond not too long ago steered the following Xbox console will share a few of the “considering” behind the not too long ago launched Asus ROG Xbox Ally and Ally X handhelds.
In an interview with Polygon earlier this yr, Spencer mentioned he want to see different digital storefronts showing on Xbox consoles sooner or later, and that he’d like to interrupt down the walled gardens that restrict gamers to solely shopping for console video games via that console’s official digital retailer.
