S&S News: Xbox One is Basically Steam in Console Format, Claims Anonymous MS Engineer

An anonymous Microsoft engineer has made some interesting comments about the Xbox One, where he basically called the system Steam in a console format...
Microsoft's used games, DRM, and restrictions have become a constant target over the past few weeks, and an engineer from the company doesn't understand all of the hate.  The anonymous engineer had some harsh words on anybody who is still complaining about the consoles restrictions.
“The goal is to move to digital downloads, but Gamestop, Walmart, Target, Amazon are KIND OF F****** ENTRENCHED in the industry. They have a lot of power, and the shift has to be gradual. Long term goal is steam for consoles. [...] If you always want to stay with what you have, then keep current consoles, or a PS4. We’re TRYING to move the industry forwards towards digital distribution… it’sa bumpy road..”
“The thing is we suck at telling the story. The whole point of the DRM switch from disc based to cloud based is to kill disc swapping, scratched discs, bringing discs to friends house, trade-ins for shit value with nothign going back to developers, and high game costs. If you want games cheaper then 59.99, you have to limit used games somehow. Steam’s model requires a limited used game model.
“The DRM is really really similar to steam… You can login anywhere and play your games, anyone in your house can play with the family xbox. The only diff is steam you have to sign in before playing, and Xbox does it automatically at night for you (once per 24 hours). It’s a long tail strategy, just like steam. Steam had it’s growing pains at the beginning with all it’s drm shit as well. [...] For digital downloads steam had no real competition at the time, they were competing against boxed sales. At the time people were pretty irate about steam, (on 4chan too…) It was only once they had a digital marketplace with DRM that was locked down to prevent sharing that they could do super discounted shit.”
“Everyone and their mother complains about how gamestop fucks them on their trade ins, getting 5$ for their used games. We come in trying to find a way to take money out of gamestop, and put some in developers and get you possibly cheaper games and everyone bitches at MS. Well, if you want the fucking from Gamestop, go play PS4.”
There is no word on any confirmation from Microsoft on these quotes, and we'll probably won't get any confirmation anytime soon.
Source: NeoWin