That’s probably the biggest addressable market right now because it’s platform-independent. tbh, I’d say the ability to download your games and play natively makes Game Pass seem a lot more valuable than just being able to stream it.

The question Microsoft has to answer is, 'will porting Game Pass to Steam Deck get us closer to our next big market?' The reason for making Game Pass work native on these environments is to make it easier for people to enter the Game Pass world, and perceive more value from it. Bringing Xbox Game Pass to Steam may well go against these ambitious efforts.

The software giant recently detailed its Open App Stores principles for its Microsoft Store on PC and Xbox consoles, which followed some big changes the company made to make its store more attractive for app and game developers last year. However, Microsoft may well have other priorities. The move wouldn’t be unprecedented, as a company like EA already offers its EA Play subscription service on Steam in addition to its own Origin PC game launcher. Steam is the biggest digital game distribution platform on the market by far, and having Xbox Game Pass on Steam could really push the service to the next level. The current version of PC Game Pass leverages Microsoft’s Xbox app for Windows 10 and Windows 11, which still lacks many of the features that made Steam popular, including broad mod support. Microsoft bringing Xbox Game Pass to Steam would certainly make a lot of PC gamers happy. “But for their customers it’s clearly a popular option, and we’d be more than happy to work with them to get that on Steam”. “I don’t think it’s something that we think we need to do ourselves, building a subscription service at this time,” Newell said. Speaking with PC Gamer, Newell said that Valve isn’t interested in creating its own game subscription service alternative, and it had “nothing philosophical against having Xbox Game Pass on Steam. Valve CEO Gabe Newell is open to the idea of making Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass service available on Steam.

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