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Xbox.steampowered.com subdomain found
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Transistor
Banned
Subdomains get made all the time, though, and many often don't get used.
Chip N Chance
Member
Future proofing.
Sapphire Dreams
Member
Maybe they'll have some sort of cross play functionality like it did with the PS3.
ashecitism
Member
Made it on Win10 release week?
Could be a thing ...or not.
Could be a thing ...or not.
Steverulez
Member
Well, I didn't say it would get used, just that it had been found.
According to the site its quite old (July 2015) which would put it as about a month after MS mentioned a Valve/Vive partnership, could be something, could be nothing
BrokenIcarus
Member
With the way Valve is pushing for more openness with OpenVR, SteamOS and Vulkan,
I highly doubt they would form a partnership that would go against that.
However I could imagine something like what they did with Portal 2 and the PS3.
I highly doubt they would form a partnership that would go against that.
However I could imagine something like what they did with Portal 2 and the PS3.
All I can tell is that it's going to be very interesting times ahead. Or it could be what jbug617 said above.
Jawmuncher
Member
Might as well work with the biggest PC market rather than against it when your last attempt failed. Yeah I know GFWL stuff was still on steam but you know what I mean.
if they added this so i could avoid using universal apps, i would actually buy stuff from their store.
ashecitism
Member
Oh yeah wasn't there an origin.steampowered.com a while ago that amounted to nothing?
Are they including XBO controllers with Vive as well?
CertifiedFP
Member
That was a byproduct of Akamai's webhosting services. "Origin" is a fairly common subdomain on sites they host as some debug leftover.
'Xbox' however is rather specific.
Oh shit, what if there's a Steam app on Windows Store and they implement PC-to-XBO streaming? So you can stream any Steam games to XBO, but still have to use Windows Store in the process.
Steverulez
Member
Not that I know of
Enter the Dragon Punch
Banned
Doubt it. They would have started with ROTTR otherwise.
littlebigman
Member
Could be the first step in an integrated platform between Steam and Xbox.
If it is an actual thing that happens, I'd take a guess it will purely be a support page for some sort of Xbox (as in the ecosystem that is on PC and Xbox) related feature, similar to how controller.steampowered.com is also just a redirect to a support page for that product, same as steamvr.steampowered.com
What exactly that could be, if it is even a thing in the first place, no idea
What exactly that could be, if it is even a thing in the first place, no idea
Rise of the Tomb Raider was developed and published by SE on PC and XBOX. For all intents and purposes, it was a third party release that Microsoft just bank rolled.
TheAdmiester
Member
Is it also possible that Origin PC is/was going to be a Steam Machine manufacturer?
Why would just want to avoid Universal Apps ?
If you don´t want to use Windows in general I would understand. But just not wanting to use Universal Apps ??
Valve couldn't afford it.
Oh man, can't wait for hats in Halo.
it'd be the other way around, not that i think it'd happen
pretty clear MS sees its game division future with PC and PC comparability. though what that precisely entails dunno
They might have to sell a few of their life-sized Gabe Newell diamond statues.
Why would Valve want that? Waste of money..
Well Fable Legends is using MS Store.
pretty sure we will find out on 25th.
Buggy Loop
Member
I dont know why either microsoft or sony havent made a deal with valve to make their console a steam compatible box yet, it'd be a huge deal to have this.
What do you mean by Steam compatible? As in games on the PS4 and Xbox One could use Steam community features? I dunno if that'd be a huge deal given PSN and Xbox Live already have many of those features.
ScatheZombie
Member
Registered by Valve, not Microsoft. Valve has always been open to working with the console manufacturers, both on bringing Valve titles to console and console titles to Steam. The problem with the relationship has been and continues to be Microsoft. It's Microsoft that prevents that relationship from happening.
This is nothing more than Valve setting up the beginnings of a potential backend should Microsoft finally get their head out of their ass about locking their PC offerings to the WIndows 10 store. If anything. More likely, it's the same link they used for support for Valve titles on Xbox 360.
Until Microsoft shows any movement away from their policy of locking multi-platform multiplayer into their platform (Xbox + Windows 10) or only releasing their PC titles via Windows 10 store, this is literally nothing.
This is nothing more than Valve setting up the beginnings of a potential backend should Microsoft finally get their head out of their ass about locking their PC offerings to the WIndows 10 store. If anything. More likely, it's the same link they used for support for Valve titles on Xbox 360.
Until Microsoft shows any movement away from their policy of locking multi-platform multiplayer into their platform (Xbox + Windows 10) or only releasing their PC titles via Windows 10 store, this is literally nothing.
Is that even possible? Won't the games themselves have to be re-programmed to make compatible?
Windows Store.
I guess that's the one main benefit MS have. Built around Direct X etc. If they do a load of testing, a good amount of what Steam has would work on Xbox One.
You don't know why closed systems with a single store won't allow someone else to add their own store?
Buggy Loop
Member
No, open the steam OS (app?) and have your library run on your PS4 like alienware's alpha.
They are PCs..
ashecitism
Member
Well, it's not like they had any console games in the last years, so...
...new game announcement imminent
Well, MS seems to be changing a lot of things quickly. It was just 6 months ago that Quantum Break and ReCore were Xbox One exclusives, now they're coming to PC, too.
There was also a survey from the Fable Legends team with a question about Steam.
I wouldn't rule anything out just yet.
Well, it's not like they had any console games in the last years, so...
...new game announcement imminent
Ricochet 3, Xbox One exclusive.