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“XBOX Support” On Steam

If you head over to the Steam Support area that Valve provides for users to resolve issues with their account, you'll notice a very inconspicuous reference to "XBOX Support" as an option in one of the initial drop down boxes. However, officially there is no version of Steam available for Xbox platforms, is this the first signs of the service on the Microsoft home console?

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Brownghost4641d ago (Edited 4641d ago )

yep would love cross platform gaming with left 4 dead man that would be amazing also with portal 2

ShinMaster4641d ago (Edited 4641d ago )

This has been on there for a while and it's only for support of Valve games on 360. Nothing new.

Anon19744641d ago

That's kinda what I was thinking. Isn't this just a support section for Valve products for the 360?

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Solidus187-SCMilk4641d ago

that would be cool if it happened, I would still buy valve stuff on PC. Source games are one thing that my old PC can run better than consoles still I think.

weird how there are sow many less comments on a positive steam on 360 news rumor than some negative one, wonder why

GodKing13374641d ago

Why would some one disagree with "Really hope so"? I can only think of two reasons. 1 you are jealous or 2 you are just some fan boy raging over people on other consoles getting an additional feature... pretty much the same thing.

Brownghost4640d ago

sometimes i feel there are people who just disagree for no reason

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Megaton4642d ago

I assume the ball is entirely in Microsoft's court. They just refuse to open up their network to things like this. No doubt Valve would jump in with both feet if they were given the green light like they were by Sony.

qwertyz4642d ago

MS will agree and relax all their rules because if not 3rd party support for 360 will die and that means 360 ales will crash and the fact that MS has only 2 competent first party studios means they need 3rd party support more than any other console maker devs just have to keep pressuring MS and they'll literally spread their legs

HenryFord4641d ago

also "literally spread their legs"? Why would they do that?

RedDead4641d ago (Edited 4641d ago )

eye twas a bit far to be true

@ HF

_Aarix_4641d ago

Yea dont use "littertaly" cause a company cant have legs

k2d4641d ago

@qwertyz: School is cool, m'kay? Don't skip out, m'kay?

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Persistantthug4641d ago

Steam is a competitor to Microsoft.

If Microsoft was to concede to letting Steam on XBOX 360, then it would be Microsoft admitting defeat of GFWL, and by extention would also signal weakness with WINDOWS.

It would signal that Microsoft's hold on the OS market is significantly waning. There are already some signs of this happening already, but Microsoft isn't ready to admit this as this would be a terrible business strategy.

This is why you will not see Steam of any kind on XBOX 360.

However, what you will probably see is an integration or convergence of XBOX 360/LIVE and GFWL.

Genghis4641d ago

lol, no one associates gfwl w/ windows. you're living a dream pal. MS has the os market by the balls and has had it for years. There have been many windows extensions that have been failures (particularly in the gaming division), but those failures have NEVER affected the adoption of Windows (not even the court failure of Office!!). Windows could only benefit from adopting steam, or, if done well, making a Steam-Powered Games for Windows. That saves the brand name and introduces the kind of service that gamers want. And perhaps that would lead to Xbox integration (oh please oh please).

But if you think the failure of GFWL is going to hurt sales numbers of windows, you're bonkers.

Persistantthug4641d ago (Edited 4641d ago )

Microsoft is in trouble and they know it.
Not in any IMMEDIATE or short term trouble, but long term trouble largely associated with obsolescence.

Microsoft has Windows, yes....But GOOGLE, FACEBOOK and others control the internet. And with Android, GOOGLE threaten MS's OS. Whenever Google launches a PC directed-Android, AND FOR FREE, consumers in droves will go to get it.

Speaking of Android, RIGHT NOW, Android (along with Apple) is destroying Windows mobile. So Microsoft is losing the mobile and tablet market too.

Now look at Zune? That device got run out of town, and I expect their Zune marketplace to meet the same fate shortly.

The only other successful Non Windows related product Microsoft has is XBOX 360/XBOX LIVE...and even with that, XBOX 360 is a distant 2nd behind Nintendo, and soon to be 3rd.

Perhaps you never fully understood this, but GFWL was put in place by Microsoft as a means to further entrench Microsoft's WINDOWS foothold, to ensure that developers and consumers alike would need and depend on Microsoft indefinitely.....Thats REALLY what it was for.
And as of now, GFWL is largely looked at as a joke, while Steam has been bulldozing it into irrelevance. So make no mistake....STEAM is Microsoft's competitor.

So again, this is why Microsoft can never afford to just let STEAM stroll nonchalantly onto their XBOX 360 and XBOX LIVE platform.
This is why you will never See Steam there......not unless Microsoft concedes ANOTHER battle lost, and that would be bad for them.....bad for MS's business.

I hope I've made myself at least a little more clear to you now, Genghis.

KingSlayer4642d ago

It's for support of Valve games on Xbox 360. Nothing more.

Neko_Mega4642d ago

I have to go with what KingSlayer said, it might just be support for their games.

BattleAxe4641d ago (Edited 4641d ago )

Looks like this is the first time "the sixth axis" has ever looked at Steam's website. This has been on there for a long time now, and like you said King, its for their retail releases of games like Left 4 Dead and Portal 2 on the 360.

StayStatic4642d ago

What king slayer said , its been their since forever

Rivitur4642d ago

yeah got curious last time I saw it but didn't think much of it. However... *Tightens Tin-Foil hat*

DiabeticJedi4641d ago (Edited 4641d ago )

Exactly what it is... I don't understand why people would down vote you stating the truth, lol

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solar4642d ago

probably hooking up controller support.

Hayabusa 1174642d ago

Well, why hasn't anyone clicked the link to find out? I'd do so myself but I don't have Steam, and I'm not interested in downloading it just to find out. WHat's everybody else's excuse?

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Ghost of Tsushima PC has 84% positive reviews and a peak online audience of 72 thousand people

On 16 May, the long-awaited release of the PC version of Ghost of Tsushima took place. And the game proved to be a great success on the first day.

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PrinceOfAnger6d ago

69,477
all-time peak 3 minutes ago.

thorstein6d ago

Nice. It's really cool that PC players get to play this masterpiece.

PrinceOfAnger6d ago

It has surpassed spider man now
it's 71k+
game did this with way shorter time than spider man.

itsmebryan5d ago (Edited 5d ago )

@prince
I'm confused. Does that number mean total players at one time playing like a snapshot
or total sales? If it's the former that's not very accurate because I know I'm not the only person that buys games and plays them later and that number is not included.

RNTody6d ago

Great, I loved this game. Definitely think it's Sucker Punch's best work to date!

rippermcrip6d ago

Is this going to be the new thing thing? Articles about Steam reviews? Which of course was in response to the false article about the review bombings in the first place.

Christopher6d ago

Hey, just a heads up that the new owners did open news to Steam updates, but we try our best to not allow them to go on daily updates unless relevant to some other news. I understand this isn't everyone's cup and tea and sympathize, but the door has been open. If you feel it's 'too much' please do PM me or submit a ticket to the mod team. Thank you.

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shinoff21835d ago

I came here to post this link in that specific article. 84 perce t is pretty good. How many bad reviews were there like 5

GamerzElite6d ago

This is good game and Ghost eliminate all fake outrage.

CrimsonWing696d ago (Edited 6d ago )

I always get confused by this, but is 72k good sales numbers for a game? I keep seeing games fail at selling 2.5 million and that they need to be on multiple platforms but is an additional 72k adding much?

Fishy Fingers6d ago

Im not sure how its confusing :\

72k actively playing. Not 72k sold.

A good example is Helldivers 2, 6m sold, 450k (at its peak) active players.

But how many swords swung is what we're all really waiting for.

shinoff21835d ago

Lmao. How many swords swung. I was hoping for how many steps

wesnytsfs5d ago

And its how many years old from initial release.

Crows906d ago

72k is concurrent
...that is not the sold figure.

Michiel19896d ago

for one they already had a huge launch on the playstation, they don't need to sell 5m to make the porting to pc profitable and as pointed out below that number you see is just the people playing it at this moment.

Plague-Doctor275d ago (Edited 5d ago )

Also from the insomniac leak we know these PC ports are a quick turnaround and budgeted around $2-4 million. At 100k sales they break even including Steams cut. They may not sell millions but they are a great ROI

elazz5d ago (Edited 5d ago )

72k concurrent. That is a global number. People who bought the game are not playing at the same time because of timezones, working schedules, holidays, events... There is no good rule of thumb but you can extrapolate based on other games that also released sales data. Then it is clear that the PC release alone accounts for at least 500K copies sold on steam, maybe closer to 700-800K. Probably will sell over a million this extended weekend.

According to steamspy and other data gathering sites games like Days Gone, Spider Man, God Of War, Horizon Zero Dawn have sold 2 to 5 million copies on Steam. So I expect Ghost to reach similar numbers. Probably even surpass it.

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VR MOBA 'Mecha Party' Is Now Available On Steam & PSVR 2

Mecha Party brings the VR MOBA to Europe and Asia on PSVR 2 and Steam, while the Quest 3 version targets a summer release.

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Babadook75d ago

This looks pretty good. RIGZ made me queasy but I've got better VR legs now (I think).

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Helldivers 2: How to Link Steam and PlayStation Network Accounts

This article explains how to link your Steam and PlayStation Networks accounts, which is becoming a must for Helldivers 2.

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