In a nutshell: Errors occur to one of the best of us. Sadly, they get amplified when you’re beneath the general public highlight as Google’s Greg Hartrell just lately skilled. On this occasion, it wasn’t too massive of a slip up and should not get anybody fired.

In the course of the Google for Video games Developer Summit keynote, Hartrell stated the Steam alpha simply launched for Chrome OS, making the longtime PC sport retailer accessible on choose Chromebooks. The chief, who serves as product director for video games on Play/Android, stated customers may be taught extra about it on the Chromebook group discussion board.

The problem is that Hartrell misspoke, and the Steam alpha hadn’t truly launched.

In a follow-up publish on the Chromebook discussion board, a Google consultant stated the Steam alpha for Chrome OS could be accessible to a small set of Chromebooks “quickly.” events have been inspired to examine again later for extra info.

Google should have been off its sport yesterday because the keynote additionally launched Hartrell by misspelling his last name.

Steam for Chromebooks has been a very long time within the making, and nothing a lot has come of the mission – no less than, not publicly. Final month, nonetheless, 9to5Google found a code change accompanied by an preliminary record of supported Chromebooks together with fashions from Acer, Asus, HP and Lenovo.

The code additional instructed minimal {hardware} necessities of an eleventh gen Intel Core i5 or i7 processor and no less than 7GB of RAM. If true, that may get rid of most lower-end Chromebooks from consideration. Given the necessities of some Steam video games, we would not be shocked if the steering proves correct.

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