Has Microsoft made a Mistake By not making XboxOS instead of a Game console?

[joeorc]

ArchangelMadzz said:
SteamOS will be huge. Steam machines will flop. I think that's what he's getting at, he thinks Xbox as a box shouldn't need to exist but a direct to metal API for PC with exclusives would be so good even I who will probably never buy an Xbox Console would definitely go for it with my gaming.

While I do Agree with what you are saying with a few things ,think in fact the Xbox should exist, I think Microsoft should have made the Xbox as a platform be as a XboxOS in other words not just making a Xbox console only made by Microsoft but allow the XboxOS to be designed like the SteamOS which is loadable on hardware that's agnostic, and like you said mainly as a direct to metal Game OS. That can be made to loadable on smart devices and open ended hardware.