The devious folks over at Xbox have introduced a brand new characteristic for his or her Xbox PC app, in addition to for the ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X once they launch later this 12 months: an aggregated library of video games, letting you see and launch any of your put in video games, no matter which storefront they’re on.
The brand new characteristic was introduced by the Xbox Insiders program, that means anybody who’s a part of this system will get entry to it immediately. The remainder of us chumps must anticipate a short while.
In line with the weblog put up, the Xbox PC App will now be capable to present any video games you could have put in in your machine from any “supported PC storefront”, though the put up stops wanting specifying which storefronts are literally on that record. Presumably, Steam and Epic are included.
In fact, you’ll additionally be capable to launch the video games straight from the Xbox app as effectively.
“With the aggregated gaming library, gamers can conveniently launch video games from Xbox, Sport Move, Battle.web and different main PC storefronts from a single library throughout the Xbox PC app. Whether or not you’re on a Home windows PC or a handheld system, your Xbox library, a whole lot of Sport Move titles, and all of your put in video games from main PC storefronts will now be at your fingertips,” says the put up.
It’ll be attention-grabbing to see if that is only a first step towards a deeper integration with Steam. Proper now, displaying put in video games and launching them is a really fundamental addition, one which requires virtually zero help from Steam or Epic to do. Loads of different storefronts and apps already do that, in truth.
However given the varied rumours hinting towards the subsequent Xbox being even nearer to a PC than earlier than, this step might doubtlessly point out Xbox regularly shifting towards totally supporting Steam. I’ll be trustworthy, although: I don’t consider we’ll see Steam on an precise Xbox console. As loopy because the world is, although, who the hell really is aware of.
