Xbox Announces 16 More Games Now Officially Supported On Steam Deck

Glad they're working on more support. If PC Game Pass came to Steam Deck then that'd be a big plus for me.

The Steam Deck is very expensive, and it'd be easier to justify the cost if I didn't also have to pay extra for new games to play on it.

Great news really, and I agree ^ I hope Game Pass officially comes to the deck without the need to stream.

Nothing on here is new to its pre-existing status on SteamDeck. Xbox apparently thinks SteamDeck owners don't know how to read. Gamepass native on Steamdeck will, unfortunately, never happen. It would require the Windows Xbox App to run natively on a Linux machine. It's still odd to me that Sony supports Steamdeck better than Xbox does. But it is Linux after all.

I’d love a Steam Deck and more native Xbox support would be a huge incentive to me actually acquiring one in the future. I mean, that’s in addition to the support it already receives from Sony.

@Krysus It's possible it could also come in the way of linking your Microsoft account to Steam and allowing those games that are free to download on Game Pass free to download on Steam. Or Microsoft could develop a native Linux App for such a purpose.

Never say never - where there is a will, there is a way.

@GamingFan4Lyf linking an MS account would be more troublesome for steam. If that were possible, then ubisoft and EA games on steam would be directly playable instead of forcing us to also download their drm crap and stores. The most sensible option for MS is to make the xbox app compatible with Linux for better or for worse.

@GamingFan4Lyf I would love more consumer friendly practices. But what you're talking about is essentially conceding a purchase to a competitor. The BEST we could hope for is a native Xbox App. But I seriously doubt that will happen. Even then, with Microsofts weird deal with DRM's, who knows if that would be playable when offline.

@Savage_Joe @Krysus Except that Game Pass PC does have the ability for Offline play...just like Steam...so not sure the issue there.

All I am saying is that Valve is happy to talk specifics and I am sure Microsoft is as well. The two companies can figure out something.

It's amazing what can happen when companies are willing to come to the table and hash things out.

@GamingFan4Lyf "Except that Game Pass PC does have the ability for Offline play...just like Steam...so not sure the issue there."
I genuinely don't know what you mean by that. Many Steam games can also be played offline.

What we are saying is that Valve won't let a GP user use their catalog of games freely on steam. It's essentially a lost sale for Valve. Also, games on GamePass may not be cross compatible on steam due to the differences in how they store save data or how moddable that game is. It's not like steam has a "play anywhere" feature like GP has. Games have to be coded to work on those features, and would cause issues if ported as is on other platforms.

@Savage_Joe "All I am saying is that Valve is happy to talk specifics and I am sure Microsoft is as well. The two companies can figure out something.

It's amazing what can happen when companies are willing to come to the table and hash things out."

😁

@GamingFan4Lyf it's amazing that things like what you say rarely, if ever, happens. Unless MS compensates (or buys) Valve for those games, your statement will remain on digital paper.

@Savage_Joe True. But never say it's impossible.

I mean, I bet Nintendo fans never thought they would see the N64 versions of Rare titles return "home", yet....

Is a Steam Deck worth buying if i own Series X, Playstation 5, Switch and a Retro Box which has literally thousands of games from about 1960 to early 90’s. It has an arcade section too with hundreds of coin op versions of games?

Have a Steam Deck and happy to have one but don’t have much chance to play any games on it when there’s games I can already play on my Xbox. Plus there’s still so many games that can’t be played on Steam Deck at the moment.