By Steve Anderson
Publication Date: 2025-11-20 18:32:00
Tech giant Microsoft (MSFT) is a lot more than just gaming. We all know that much; Microsoft’s big worry back in the console war era was that it would be considered merely a productivity company. But there are some mounting concerns about the upcoming Steam Machine, the new attempt at console gaming from Valve that basically does what Microsoft was planning to do, only much earlier. Microsoft investors were starting to feel the pain as well, and shares slid fractionally in Thursday afternoon’s trading.
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Microsoft so far has been welcoming of the Steam Machine, despite the fact that it looks a lot like its own planned Xbox release, but at least a year ahead of schedule. In fact, some analysts—like Joost van Dreunen of the New York University Stern School of Business—says this is a disaster for Microsoft waiting to happen.
He noted, “Steam Machine basically turns Microsoft’s worst nightmare into a shipping product. It pushes Microsoft
