Steam's 'Xbox Support' section discovered, sparks Valve 360 rumours

[mjk45]

selnor said:

mjk45 said:

Antabus said:
I don't get it. What would someone do with steam on 360?

cross platform play of games like Portal etc, steam client match making, direct patches upgrades through steam .

Thee thing that confuses me is there are no fiigures to show cross platform gaming is wanted or needed.

Microssoft were tthe first try this and had  other games lined up. Shadowrun was not successful, Huxley was dropped and The Secret World was alsoo dropped.

I suppose you could argue that Portal 2 is more popular, but again from what I understand from newsbites is the crossplatform part pretty much non exists.

the question was what would you do with steam on live and I answered it .

The success or otherwise of the platform would then be up to steam also there are many examples of products that are now taken for granted that initially

met with scepticism  and initial failure some times it was right idea wrong time  etc., obviously valve sees it different and it is not just about cross platform they also want to control there ability to streamline valve products across all platforms and not be forced into a corner in regards to free/paid dlc

You can't blame MS for wanting to keep things how they are. but I think eventually they will loosen the network guidelines just a tad.