After almost four years of tests and without reaching a final version, Google and Valve have decided to put an end to the Steam experiment in Chrome OS.
As announced, The beta program officially ends on January 1, 2026and the installed games will cease to be accessible on compatible devices.
Steam support for Chromebook began in 2022 as an exclusive alpha for high -end laptops with Intel processors.
Then it was extended to models with AMD hardware, reducing system requirements.
Basically, Google’s goal It was to position the Chromebook as devices suitable for video gameswith the support of Steam, but also from Geforce Now and Xbox Cloud Gaming.
Even models with high soda rate and better specifications were launched, But from the first moment it was seen that the limited processors of the Chromebook were against this project.
And, of the thousands of games available in Steam, only 99 appeared on the official Google compatibility list, and most were low graphic demand titles.
He had previously rumored that Google was testing Chromebook with graphics cards Nvidia GeForce, but those plans vanished.
So this new news makes it clear that Google has no intention that Chrome remains much longer in its current form, possibly with the idea of a future fusion plan with Android. It seems that the future of video games in Chromebook is more linked to the game in the cloud.
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