https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/capcom-makes-the-majority-of-its-sales-on-pc-and-it-expects-the-ratio-to-continue-increasing/

Not sure why it had to be a link to Yahoo Finance (also: Rule 9)

How much this translates into gaming is very much another question.

A good way to find out would be Microsoft releasing their own games for Windows ARM. AFAIK only Solitaire Collection is ported to ARM.

Alpine Linux has a very different user space from GNU/Linux. It’s still Linux.

Anyone who says “Linux” means GNU/Linux and anyone who says Android means Android/Linux.

What makes GNU/Linux? glibc! What about glibc is not optimized for “smaller form factor, cost”?

Android ecosystem is actually designed for a smaller form factor, cost.

Android is Linux

Nvidia, Intel and AMD: their business now is circular money with AI and not PC gaming industry anymore.

I don’t see how ARM, especially when Qualcomm is the only realistic option, is the solution here. Also, basic x86-64 patents have lapsed last year and newer extensions will lapse step by step. ARM64 is still so new, its initial patents will only lapse in 10 years.

It’s not about emulation, it’s about bypassing copyright protection. Different laws cover that.

I mean, wasn’t switch 2 the fastest selling console of all time?

No, the fastest selling NINTENDO console (IIRC)

Review of the demo by Eurogamer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_E6ODBEMwM

Hell yeah

You don’t need to even have the launcher installed to claim the free EGS games. I usually claim them to support the developers.

Still, Steam does dominate a massive portion of the PC market.

Steam revenue in 2023: USD 8.5 bn.

Overall PC gaming revenue that year: 45 bn.

Steam is big but the biggest cash cows are Fortnite, Roblox, and Minecraft. Neither is on Steam.

Also, Microsoft uses their Windows monopoly to ship the Xbox Games store to almost every PC user.

If Steam had a dominating market position, the EU would have classified it as a gate keeper under the Digital Markets Act.

The meme about Valve/Steam “does nothing, keeps winning” is mostly true (I don’t think the average gamer knows about Valve’s contributions to FOSS).

Because of Fortnite EGS has a very big installed base. People added their friends on Epic because of Fortnite. And yet gamers buy other games on Steam instead. That may have something to do with the fact that the main page of EGS mainly promotes Epic’s own games, whereas Steam promotes third party games first.

Fuck their monopoly!

Interesting monopoly when the world’s biggest PC games – Minecraft, Roblox, and Fortnite – aren’t even on Steam.

is that supposed to be good or bad? A lot or a little?

Neither. It’s reporting, not an opinion piece.

That article seems to be making a heck of a lof of excuses.

No, it doesn’t.

The hard pivot from “the Deck is an unmitigated success!” to immediately, quietly admitting it hasn’t outsold any actual handheld console is… kinda weird.

It sold millions in a market that was up to Deck’s launch owned by small manufacturers that sold on crowdfunding platforms in production runs that may have been only in the tens of thousands. Stating that Steam Deck is a success is not a contradiction to Nintendo Switch being an enormous success.

Probably a few more but all users of the Flatpak versions are lumped together no matter if they use Arch or Fedora.

Hey GameStop. Just wondering: Where are Song of the Deep 2 and 3? Can’t you count to 3?

https://www.ign.com/articles/2016/01/28/insomniac-and-gamestop-announce-publishing-partnership-with-song-of-the-deep

True. Wasn’t meant as a comprehensive list. 😁

What I find funny and I realized it a bunch of years ago: whenever consumers have actual choice of an alternative product and aren’t forced into the Microsoft product because of Microsoft’s monopolies, people tend to pick the competition.

Windows Phone: consumers chose Android and iPhone.

Xbox: consumers chose PlayStation and Nintendo.

Handheld gaming PC: Steam Deck.

Chat (MSN, Skype,…): WhatsApp and a plethora of alternatives. (Businesses use Teams because of Office monopoly.)

Edge browser: Chrome.

WMA: MP3.

Games shop (Xbox/Microsoft Store): Steam.

How many embedded DRM-controlled news article videos are you watching on your living room tv though?

Obviously it’s only a fraction of the overall DRMed content out there but it exists, most notably for live sports that TV stations stream for free on their website but require paid subscriptions when using streaming apps.