Thursday, 8 September 2011

“XBOX Support” On Steam

‘Allo ‘allo ‘allo what’s all this then? 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.
The thing is though, there is no version of Steam available for either of the Xbox platforms, Valve have on several occasions highlighted that Steamworks is – for the time being – only on PlayStation 3 in the home console space due to Microsoft’s reluctance to open up the Xbox Live infrastructure.
So why do they have a dedicated support option for this unsupported gaming platform? The wording is admittedly a little dubious, it should be Xbox 360 surely? Then again Valve also shortens PlayStation 3 to just “PS3″ in the same menu, so perhaps they’re not that big on official branding?
Is this the first hint of Steam coming to Microsoft’s console, an admin error, or something else entirely? We’ll be reaching out to both companies for a response but let us know your thoughts in the meantime in the comments below.

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