Valve made Microsoft’s dream console

Microsoft keeps describing this exemplary for the aboriginal of a crippled console that sounds large for players: it's arsenic casual arsenic a console, it tin play a immense room of PC titles, and it adjacent supports third-party stores. That'd beryllium a fantastic merchandise if idiosyncratic could physique it, and it definite looks similar Valve has beaten Microsoft to the punch with its caller Steam Machine.

This week connected The Vergecast, Nilay Patel, Jake Kastrenakes, Sean Hollister, and peculiar impermanent Joanna Stern beryllium down to speech done Valve's ambitious caller hardware initiatives - and what it means for Microsoft and Windows. Do consumers inactive usage Windows successful the future? Or are games (and an o …

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