Many fans are excited for the upcoming Steam Machines, the home consoles being made by over a dozen different companies that will bring Steam to the living room. However, One top Microsoft executive is not very concerned with the upcoming consoles, but rather is more excited about some of the other innovations coming to video games.

Xbox Chief Product Officer Marc Whitten was interviewed by Engadget, and the executive first responded to a statement made by Valve founder Gabe Newell about the Xbox One's sales, before saying that he is skeptical about the Steam Machines program:

"The last thing I'll ever do in my entire life is get into a flame war with Gabe Newell. There's no win in that...I personally don't know how to think about Steam Machines yet...I'm not knocking it or whatever. I continue to think that PC gaming -- the sort of uber configuration and I can change everything and I can mod -- that's an important thing and there's a lot of people that wanna do that."

When pressed for his opinion on if Steam Machines can be competitive with the Xbox One and the Sony PlayStation 4, Whitten believes that all three consoles can share the same space without affecting each other too much:

"When you get into that living room environment, you don't want to spend any of your brain cells doing anything but being entertained. I don't want to work on it; I don't want to feel like I have to know how it works. I would like to be blowing things up now, or watching a thing now. That's the fundamental thing that you want to do...I think there's space for both. I'm not sweating it."

One thing that Whitten is excited about is the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, which the executive believes may become the next big thing in gaming:

"This is literally the most golden of golden ages that I've ever seen around gaming...I think this is what makes gaming great. And you love seeing the passion of seeing someone like Palmer [Luckey] and those guys at Oculus. And seeing someone like John Carmack get on and really be focused on it is great. I don't know how it could be anything but good."
Look out for more news about the Steam Machines, Oculus Rift, and Xbox One has 2014 brings exciting new changes to all three of these video game products.