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.

Bloodborne remake (which never happened in the first place)

Not officially: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqOs2chL3NQ

They released Lego Horizon on Nintendo Switch. Marathon will even come to Xbox.

Of course they leak that sort of information. They want people to buy PlayStation consoles which is a hard proposition, given the fact that after years on the market these consoles get more expensive instead of receiving price cuts (an outright ridiculous situation). Even more so with PS6 facing delays.

The benefit of controlled leaks is that Sony never made an official announcement. And when two years after a release on PlayStation they make a PC port, they never formally lied.

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

Fairphone is looking to capitalize on Goole restricting AOSP support for Pixel phones. FP seems to be the way going forward.

As a side effect of Valve putting SteamOS on an VR headset with ARM mobile chipset, regular Linux on phones will likely also improve.

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.

Because a PC tells the OS what hardware is present. Phones do not, that’s why there is no hardware detection.

Nobody forces phone makers to support the standard that would just do that: https://www.arm.com/architecture/system-architectures/systemready-compliance-program

Conveniently forgeting the part where valve creates a gambling system for kids, as usual.

Do you mean loot boxes in Counter-Strike? A) It’s not a game for kids. B) And no, I’m not getting involved with parenting of other people’s children, so I actually do not care.

But I get it, the only things that mathers is you.

I matter to me, yes.

There has actually been a case going around about Valve forcing price parity despite their official ToS not saying so, with emails from employees to devs as evidence.

They’re doing a shitty job at enforcement if your claim is true.

I can’t understand the amount of energy people spend defending Valve.

Valve uses my money to make the Linux FOSS stack better for everyone, including me. GOG doesn’t.

Buying on Steam instead of GOG serves my personal interests.

What’s wrong Heroic?

Not officially supported. Using the GUI with a controller is wonky.

Embedded Tweet: https://xcancel.com/007GameIOI/status/2008599546708787297

Also:

Probably not much of a stretch to expect a Amazon Luna (streaming) version of that game. “Too hardware hungry for you? No problem, just sign up to our game streaming service.”

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.

As long as AMD and Intel continue their open source drivers, I’m fine with it.

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.

Nature is healing.

Nah, they’re lying. They’ll just cover their tracks better in the future.

Do you expect copyright laws to mention every single type of transformative work acceptable? You are being purposely ignorant.

I asked nicely to provide a quote that machine generation is also covered that you couldn’t provide and now feels the need to lash out.

And yes, I absolutely expect that machine generation is explicitly mentioned for the simple fact that right now machine generated anything is not copyrightable at all. A computer isn’t smart, a computer isn’t creative. Its output doesn’t pass the threshold of originality, as such there is no creative transformation happening, as there is with reinterpretations of songs.

What is copyrightable are the works that served as training set, therefore there absolutely has to be an explicit mention somewhere that machine generated works do not simply pass the original copyright into the generated work, just like how a human writes source code and the compiled executable is still the human author’s work.

Edit: Downvotes instead of arguments. Pathetic.

Not a single line in your comment offers anything that machine generation, which is not at all human creative work, falls under fair use.

Please quote me the line where this covers machine generation as well? I’d love to sell Google translated Harry Potter books for being transformative work. Maybe I can transform the lastest movie releases to MKV and sell those.

So it’s safe to assume all code generation was trained on GPL code from GitHub and therefore the game code is derived work of GPL code and therefore under GPL itself? So decompilation and cracking is fine?

Use your AI generation all you want but don’t enter a painting contest using machine generated content trained on other people’s work without their consent.

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.

Then I won’t watch those, simple as.

Doesn’t change facts for millions of others.

🏴‍☠️ Well 🏴‍☠️ I 🏴‍☠️ don’t 🏴‍☠️ care 🏴‍☠️

Random clips on the web are DRMed these days, like news articles with an embedded video. Many CMSes just DRM all clips. Totally BS but I’ve seen the video frame staying black on a bunch of sites now.

People who connect TVs to the Internet only invite malware. They usually don’t receive big fixes after a few years and tend to spy on all watched content.