Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony have long been dubbed the "big 3" of gaming. After CES 2025, Valve now sits at the head of that table.
  • anamethatisnt@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I am very happy about Proton/SteamOS and how they assist in making games playable on Linux. I hope the SteamOS devices become popular enough that developers stop trying to shut Linux out.

    I’m not looking forward to what will happen with Steam when Gabe is no longer around though.
    Having one big marketplace/launcher might be comfy right now but that can turn into a nightmare quickly when there’s a new owner in town.

    Personally I’m trying to buy any game I can on gog.com instead of Steam. Both to get my own offline installers and to ensure not all my eggs (games) are in one basket. I launch more games from Lutris then Steam today.

    • gianni@lemmy.caEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Isn’t gog a sinking ship? And games already aren’t being updated at the same rate as Steam?

      • anamethatisnt@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 month ago

        Some developers make gog users second rate citizens, some don’t publish on gog at all. I wouldn’t call it a sinking ship though, later years they’ve had more big name games such as Baldur’s Gate 3 than before.

        Also, if gog shuts down tomorrow I can still install all my games from the installers on my network share, something I can’t say about steam.

          • MolochAlter@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            1 month ago

            Yesn’t.

            Gaben said stuff to the effect “of steam were to shut down we would take steps to allow your library to stay offline forever” but that is nowhere in the tos and also doesn’t really mean much for the fear that steam will stay and progressively enshittify.

  • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I really hope Gabe doesn’t die right now because we are SO CLOSE to having a mainstream windows competitor.
    The users-&-software feedback loop snowball is about to go down a mountain and I am so here for it.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Agreed.

      Hopefully other platforms start caring about Linux because I really don’t want Gabe to be replaced by a “profit all the things” CEO and for Linux gaming to become a locked-down platform.

      • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.clubEnglish
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        1 month ago

        That already happened with Android.

        Successful deployments of Linux for consumers are going to include a DRM app store.

        • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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          22 days ago

          I dont care what android is on paper, in practice it shares almost nothing in common with the rest of linux and it isn’t instructive how this could be done with an actually FOSS os.

  • erotador@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    2 months ago

    what about Microsoft? don’t they make games too? and a whole console? and the os that most pc gamers use? don’t they own like a whole bunch of game studios? why are they not included? why does it have to be 3? is it because of the weebs? we don’t need the weebs to tell us what to do.