I don't understand the steam comparisons. Steam is not PC gaming as a whole. If you don't like it, go buy a disc version or from another online retailer.
I don't like the rise of steamworks-only games, but thankfully they are not incredibly numerous. It removes the choice from PC gaming. The platform where the #1 selling point for me, is freedom to choose.
There will not be such choices on XB1.
This person speaks the truth. Even though I choose Steam when possible, due to the convenience and price value, I like when there are DRM-free options too, for people who prefer that.
I agree that selling retail games that require Steam isn't good, since a disc is supposed to be tradeable. But it has been that way for a LONG time on PC, even before Steam rose in popularity. SecuROM, Tages, StarForce, GFWL, CD keys binded to user accounts, all those forms of DRM already prevented people from reselling their retail PC games. So while it's true that Steam doesn't allow it either, it's not like it removed that possibility. It was never there in the first place. I'd love Valve to create a system that allows that, but that's not a priority to me when I can already buy the games for real cheap.
On the other hand, retail console games have ALWAYS been allowed to be resold. So the Xbone is going to change that, being the first time a disc can't be freely sold. And that will be happening without all the good things that an open platform such as PC offers: possibility of circumventing DRM by means of a crack (which while not technically legal, in my book it's fair game if you paid for the product and won't use it to share it with other people), mods and user-created content, customization in many aspects (graphics, controls, sometimes UI too), different stores/sellers competing against each other (which makes prices go down drastically, something that WON'T happen in a closed environment with a single company controlling everything), different tastes of DRM/no DRM at all (not all games are made this way, and that's something that should change: I think all games should have a DRM-free version available), and I'm sure I'm missing several more things.
What is Xbone offering me that benefits me, that I couldn't already do on X360? What are they offering that can justify the removal of many of my rights as a customer? Why would I want to be a part of that deal, if it's much worse than what I had before?
And to conclude this post: what does it matter if Steam also does the same bad things? It doesn't justify Xbone doing them too, not at all. Especially when it goes against what was expected of it, because it's already accepted that digital media won't be able to be traded, but with physical console games that was always the case. Always, until now.