Xbox-Steam Connectivity Incoming?

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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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Source: http://gameranx.com/updates/id/37616/article/steam-registered-an-xbox-subdomain-and-we-dont-know-why-yet/

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315Posted:

This probably has something to do with Microsoft plan to introduce crossbuy for future Xbox games. They already did it with quantum break so it will only be a matter of time for new games to be added to the list.

HurlehPosted:

This would be pretty cool

DiscernPosted:

Now this is something I'd look forward to.

SwiftPosted:

I'm pretty sure that they made those just to have them a couple years ago. Plus if Xbox was heading to merge with the PC side of gaming they would use their Windows 10 store.

SkittlePosted:

If this is what I think it is.. Then it will be awesome, cross play can only be good!

agapePosted:

would be really cool to see these companies work side by side

LiaPosted:

If this actually happens it would be great! :)

PluckyPosted:

If this would be such a great partnership if that's what you want to call it

1989Posted:

This would be pretty cool if they do.

ShaliSilvaPosted:

few companies positioned to compete with Steam on making a PC storefront. Nice to c the try.


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