Microsoft does really like to pull surprising moves out of nowhere. A series of somewhat disappointing press conferences for announcing the new Xbox series as well as the announcement of “exclusives” (if you could count any good ones among them) – Xbox hasn’t been on a high note of late. All of that changes within a fortnight when they announced the acquisition of Zenimax Media, Bethesda’s parent group, for a whopping $7.5 billion. The announcement of future Bethesda games being exclusive to the Xbox and the PC had mixed reactions from the gaming community, but a very favorable response from shareholders. However, it doesn’t seem like they are done with the “big announcements” as of yet.
Something big is coming to Xbox if you got the new app you can link your steam and Xbox friends to it pic.twitter.com/PKMtgNa5Wv
— Mark Greenwalt Jr (@Margrnwjr) October 19, 2020
The new Xbox gaming app has a new tab added to it that allows players to import friends from Facebook as well as Steam. It’s intriguing that the app would allow importing friends from a storefront that seems to be a rival for the PC platform. Big announcements about some sort of “partnership” with Steam might be coming soon – probably with some “clause” that makes the community go “Wow”. There have been rumors that Microsoft does have more news to share with the community, including one more big-ticket acquisition. It must be noted that Microsoft had agreed to publish Halo: the Master Chief Collection on both Steam as well as the Xbox Game Store – so a “bigger” partnership can just be an extension of this deal only.
Do take the news with a pinch of salt – it might be a rumor at best and over-speculation at worst.