Could STEAM be brought to PS or Xbox?

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Kerotan said:

Dgc1808 said:
When you say Steam on PS4/X1... what does that entail?

i guess it would mean steam could set up a store to sell pc games not already on consoles. sony and ms would still get a cut. 

but this has me thinking why don't MS and Sony get most pc games to port them to their consoles...

Because they would be giving Gabe free money, Sony/MS would gain nothing from having Steam on their consoles and even then Valve is in control of Steam so Sony/MS would be at the complete mercy of the service.

 

That and I don't see a reason for Steam to be on consoles, consoles have their own exclusives and games like the PC does and the consoles of this gen still aren't enough to run a game like Star Citizen, not every single PC game runs flawlessly on a console because they use closed hardware that's already outdated.

If they made that deal with Nvidia this gen they would have had a bit more on the specs but instead they went with AMD since Nvidia was asking for too much (esp since Sony lost out on most profits last gen thanks to expensive hardware and didn't want to do it again).

I honestly don't understand why you didn't just title the thread as "Do you think it's possible for MS & Sony to have PC exclusives ported over".

Thing is though when it comes to a console it's a one way street since the beginning of time, with PC it can be a two way street at times (like Portal 2 for instance) but at the same time a PC not only makes all games for all platforms but it can also run them, wheras a console cannot run them all unless they are changed completely from their locked hardware design.

I see a point in valve making more money from Sony & MS and them making themselves money if they port over some of their exclusives, but I don't see any gain from MS & Sony trying to give free moiney to Gabe in the hopes of being able to hopefully run watered down PC games, RTS games to mind do not really run that well on consoles at all, I'm a huge fan of RTS and I've tried the majority on consoles as well as PC to know the M+K combo for them is superior.