Exclusive: Google is working to bring official Steam support to Chrome OS

guest · Jan 17, 2020

Exclusive: Google is working to bring official Steam support to Chrome OS
January 17, 2020
https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/01/17/exclusive-google-is-working-to-bring-steam-to-chrome-os/

In a wide-ranging discussion about the Chrome platform and ecosystem, Liu dropped something of a bombshell on me: the Chrome team is working—very possibly in cooperation with Valve—to bring Steam to Chromebooks.

Liu declined to provide a timeline for the project, but did confirm it would be enabled by Chrome OS's Linux compatibility. The Steam client would, presumably, run inside Linux on Chrome—a platform for which it is already available. Liu implied, though would not directly confirm, that Google was working in direct cooperation with Valve on this project.

Liu says that gaming is the single most popular category of downloads for Play Store content on Chromebooks, so it would logically follow that adding support for Steam on Chrome could be deeply attractive to the audience already playing games on the platform, even if that would mean practical limitations on the titles available.
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ArsTechnica: Report: Google wants to bring the Steam game store to… Chrome OS?

The story apparently comes from a direct source: Kan Liu, the director of product management for Chrome OS.

So will some manufacturer step up and make a gaming-focused Chromebook? Android Police writes that "Liu said we could expect [Chrome OS' lack of powerful hardware] to change: more powerful Chromebooks, especially AMD Chromebooks, are coming. Liu would not explicitly confirm that any of these models would contain discrete Radeon graphics but told us to stay tuned."

Valve would probably welcome Chrome OS as an official Steam platform with open arms.
A push for Steam compatibility would be yet another app store Google is bolting onto the once-simple Chrome OS. It used to be a light and simple Web OS.
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If Steam gets added, that's three major platforms, plus Chrome's extensions and Web apps, that are available on the OS.
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Rasheed187 · Jan 18, 2020

Cool, but I still have no interest in those Crapbooks, I mean Chromebooks.

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