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Cake day: July 24th, 2023

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  • Today there are many more games that run on Windows than on Linux, that is a fact.

    We are talking about a market that is based on existing games, so I don’t see how new machines could get rid of market leaders that work mainly under Windows. On the contrary, having access to Xbox Live seems to me to be an advantage.

    You can always claim that you can do everything on a steamdeck, it is not necessarily straight forward and within the reach of the newcomer. Not everyone is a computer engineer or want to push the “switch to dev mode button”.

    On the desktop part, the comparison does not hold that we are talking about the number of software in the libraries, or the number of compatible devices. Linux market share for desktops after 30 years is barely 5% of the park. Now, if you just want to start a browser or read your emails, a Linux should be enough.

    Since 2013, Steam has an overall market share of +75% on any digital distribution, in Europe this share exceeds 80%. The revenue forecast for 2023 is $56 billion. For a developer, it seems difficult to do without the monopoly exercised by this company. An even less defensible monopoly while the company helps to destroy physical supports and at the same time the second-hand market. Who else has a catalog of more than 50,000 titles? The only competition comes from the publishers themselves and it is lean EA, UBI, … I think it is time to set up a regulation to avoid this monopolistic situation.

    The game market is a bit like the music market, if you want to support an artist or a devloper, buy directly from his home site and do not go through a platform.




  • You don’t, maybe. LOL and Fortnite represent 365 million players. That’s the main market. The steam deck is for steam only. You don’t like DRM-free games? Or use a retro gaming portal to launch roms ? Do you prefer to deal with a single company that decides when and which game has to be removed?

    I chose the ASUS because the performance was the same, it heats up less so the fan is less active and I can also use it daily as a desktop with a dock.