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A fan has made an interesting discovery; Steam has registered some Xbox subdomains.
These subdomains include the very clearly Xbox related xbox.steamgames.com and xbox.steampowered.com. Our source can only speculate on what these domains are for, if they are planned to be used at all.
Reddit is sharing their theories on what this could possibly mean. Yvese believes this will allow Xbox account owners to connect their accounts to Steam. This is the top comment on the thread, and for good reason. Valve made such arrangements with the release of Portal 2 in 2011 on Steam and PlayStation 3. Portal 2 remains the only Steam game connected to a console, offering features like cross-platform matchmaking, gameplay, friends, chat, Steam achievements, and even Steam Cloud save.
However, dostro89 points out that Microsoft is one of the few companies positioned to compete with Steam on making a PC storefront. Sekular points out that this looks more like an action by Valve, than by Microsoft, since they own these domains.
As Yvese points out, we may learn what this is in the upcoming Xbox One and Windows 10 gaming event later this month.
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Interesting. MS has been pushing gaming on windows 10 alot harder. Perhaps MS is trying to coexist? More likely tho, valve is just buying these domains to have them, either for future unplanned events, or to deny MS these domains.
Also, the source link is broken.
(02-16-2016, 01:39 AM)Skullmeat Wrote: [ -> ]Interesting. MS has been pushing gaming on windows 10 alot harder. Perhaps MS is trying to coexist? More likely tho, valve is just buying these domains to have them, either for future unplanned events, or to deny MS these domains.
Also, the source link is broken.
Microsoft wouldn't have access to purchase a subdomain on a domain that Steam/Valve already owns.
Either going to be some form of Steam Games ported to the Xbox, or some Xbox-Steam connection, IMO.
Can't imagine an actual partnership between Steam and MS to exist side-by-side however, their ideals are too contrasting with each other.
I personally think it's pretty logical. The base is already on windows 10. Xbox achievements, the xbox games login etc. I think it could certainly be possible.
Probably old. For some reason I don't see those companies working together.
Would be awesome if true, and I can imagine a lot of people liking this... However, I agree with Oni. It is difficult to imagine this coming to reality. Time will soon tell.