You Can Play Your Steam Games On Xbox, Kinda

The Xbox’s room has grown, benignant of, particularly if your Steam room is large. 

That’s due to the fact that Xbox consoles tin present technically play Steam games, though you shouldn’t get excessively excited – this tin beryllium champion described arsenic a amusive happening to cheque retired successful enactment alternatively than a morganatic and viable mode to play Steam games. 

As reported by PCWorld, The Verge’s Tom Warren discovered that due to the fact that Microsoft’s Edge browser runs connected Xbox consoles, Nvidia’s GeForce Now streaming service, which allows you to log into PC store databases similar Steam to play games you already own, tin technically beryllium tally connected these consoles. Basically, what’s happening is that you tin usage the Edge browser to entree the GeForce Now streaming work online. You tin past watercourse your Steam games done GeForce Now done the Edge browser connected your Xbox Series X/S oregon Xbox One. 

Reading that condemnation unsocial should bespeak to you however well, oregon alternatively not well, streaming Steam games done this method works. That’s aggregate interfaces the crippled indispensable beryllium streamed through, and arsenic you mightiness expect, there’s a bully magnitude of lag and latency involved. You tin spot Warren play Counter-Strike: Global Offensive below, and arsenic helium points out, it’s not an perfect experience. 

However, turn-based RPGs and different crippled types that don’t necessitate speedy reflex-based actions mightiness beryllium worthy checking retired done this unusual method of streaming. 

If you privation to effort this for yourself, usage the Edge browser connected your Xbox console to spell to Play.GeForceNow.com. Once there, log successful and prime the crippled you privation to effort out. You tin play games via your Xbox controller oregon keyboard and rodent done this method. It’s important to enactment that Warren tried this connected his Xbox One X – possibly an Xbox Series X tin grip the workaround better. 

As noted by PCWorld, this is not a method Xbox oregon Nvidia item oregon adjacent suggest. It’s simply a workaround discovered, and for now, we don’t foresee Xbox oregon Nvidia revealing this arsenic a viable mode to play games. Maybe the 2 volition enactment unneurotic to make an app that does this precise happening connected Xbox consoles. For now, the Edge browser is your doorway to Steam games connected Xbox. 

For more, work astir Nvidia GeForce Now and however it works, and past work astir however cloud gaming is coming to Xbox consoles this vacation season. Check retired this communicative astir Microsoft’s caller Xbox update that brings 4K dashboards to the Xbox Series X, nighttime mode, and much to consoles aft that.

Will you beryllium giving this a go? Let america cognize successful the comments below!