Microsoft crawls back to Steam ahead of schedule by leaking a screenshot of an app where you can launch Steam games through Xbox
Microsoft crawls back to Steam ahead of schedule by leaking a screenshot of an app where you can launch Steam games through Xbox
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Microsoft crawls back to Steam ahead of schedule by leaking a screenshot of an app where you can launch Steam games through Xbox
I wouldn't say they're "crawling back to Steam", not like they've ever left. This is clearly for their new Handheld/Big Screen UI. They're seeing the success of Steam Deck and Steam OS and are trying to build a competitive experience on Windows.
Don't forget they have their own gaming overlay(win+G while in game)
It's arguably garbage. Game Overlay was just one of a long list of things shoved down my throat by M$ that eventually culminated in my wiping my windows partitions, and fully moving to Linux.
I'm not going to proselytise, I'm just pointing out that it was one of the factors that helped the decision to fully switch easier for me personally to make.
If the next Xbox home console is running full-ass Windows instead of a walled DRM garden, and then they partner with Steam for easy swapping between the "Xbox/Gamepass" UI and Steam Big Picture, that's the best console. As in, like best console ever.