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Sony, Microsoft and Valve need to push for their hardware because otherwise there will be no need for their platforms. Why would Bathesda create games for the P
by sinatra 11y ago
Sony, Microsoft and Valve need to push for their hardware because otherwise there will be no need for their platforms. Why would Bathesda create games for the PlayStation VM or Xbox VM if in the end the VMs are running on iOS or Android or whatever else OS? They'll directly create games for the App Store or Play Store instead. Nintendo makes enough first party games to consider doing what you're suggesting. Just what Sega did in the past. Valve had to work on their own hardware due to the threat of the Windows App Store.
- padobson 11y agoiOS or Android or whatever else OS You just answered your own question. Remember the screen paradigm. In the 80s, Nintendo made it possible for developers to make games that worked on Zenith TVs, Magnavox TVs and RCA TVs, but they only had to develop it once, for the NES. The Playstation VM means the developer only needs to make the game once, and Sony is doing the work to make the VM work on iOS phone, iOS tablet, Android phone, Android tablet, Windows, Windows phone, Visio TVs, Samsung TVs, etc etc etc. Plus it can't be understated that there still needs to be a controller. Touch screens just don't offer the immersion that controllers do.
- sinatra 11y agoBoth Apple and Google take 30% cut. There's no way a game developer will want to use a PlayStation or Xbox VM and pay them another 20% (that's what console makers get today I think). They'll rather use an engine that already supports multiple platforms. All app developers are already building apps for Android and iOS without using any VM in most cases anyway. Microsoft and Sony make billions of $s in revenue from their console platforms. It's not easy to switch to a VM play where you're a "nice to have," not a "must have" and continue making billions of $s.