Steam Deck Now Supports Xbox Cloud Gaming Through Edge - News

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The Head of Product and Strategy at Xbox Cloud Gaming Catherine Gluckstein has announced Xbox and Valve have worked together to make the Xbox Cloud Gaming (Beta) available to use on the Steam Deck through the Microsoft Edge Beta. 

There are also a number of Xbox Game Studios playable natively on the Steam Deck. This includes Psychonauts 2, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Battletoads, Max: The Curse of Brotherhood, Sea of Thieves, Forza Horizon 5, Forza Horizon 4, Quantum Break, and State of Decay: Year-One Survival Edition.

Valve president Gabe Newell did recently say he is willing to work with Microsoft to add Game Pass on Steam.

Valve released its all-in-one portable PC gaming device, the Steam Deck, at the end of February.

A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.

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SuperNintend0rk (on 21 March 2022)

Native Game Pass support would be ideal but cloud streaming is definitely better than nothing for the time being.

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Kristof81 SuperNintend0rk (on 21 March 2022)

Install Windows on it, and you have native GP support.

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Azzanation Kristof81 (on 21 March 2022)

Yeah i think that's what MS want. As a business sense.

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Dulfite Kristof81 (on 21 March 2022)

Would running two OS's slow it down to the point that it wasn't worth it, or can you use just Windows OS and not Steam's native OS?

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Shadis Dulfite (on 21 March 2022)

It is one or the other. You can't run both at the same time or dual boot. The reviews so far of windows gaming on the Steam Deck are not great, but that is most likely due to optimizations so far.

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Dulfite Shadis (on 21 March 2022)

Good to know, thank you!

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G2ThaUNiT Kristof81 (on 21 March 2022)

Windows on the Deck is nowhere near ready. Once it is though, I'm gonna be all over it!

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SuperNintend0rk Kristof81 (on 21 March 2022)

True but there a lot of issues with it right now. Official support from MS would go a long way.

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