Gabe Newell Still Wants Steam On Xbox

In an interview with EuroGamer, head of Valve Gabe Newell spoke about bringing Steam to consoles, and what benefits that would bring players.

We certainly can deliver a lot of value to customers to the degree to which we have those capabilities. With the PS3 obviously we made a lot more progress with that. The PS3 customers of Portal 2 are going to start to see the benefits of that with Portal 2 DLC coming out in September. So we’d really like to be able to do that for Xbox customers as well.

He then continued to speak about the challenges of bringing Steam to Xbox.

The main thing is having Microsoft get comfortable with it and let us do it. Right now, there’s a huge amount of updates and free content we’ve been able to deliver to people who have The Orange Box that we haven’t been able to deliver to the Xbox because of the restrictions that have been placed on us on Xbox Live.

We’d love to see those relaxed. Other developers on the PS3 are starting to benefit from Sony’s more open approach. Hopefully that will help Microsoft see that’s a good strategy for making customers happy, that the barbarians won’t tear down the walls of Xbox and turn it into some chaotic wasteland.

Will it come to Xbox? We certainly hope so at some point, it would only bring benefits such as free DLC to all the gamers on Live. Many had simply thought that Newell had given up on Xbox with his switch-a-roo from supporting Xbox to Playstation when they allowed Steam to be implemented on PSN.

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