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Except Microsoft is investing heavily in first party games, buying loads of studios and letting them retain a lot of independence. They’re approaching the strea
by pdpi 6y ago
Except Microsoft is investing heavily in first party games, buying loads of studios and letting them retain a lot of independence. They’re approaching the streaming service as an extension of the Xbox experience. It’s a much more robust strategy all around
- pjmlp 6y agoAnd not forcing studios to rewrite their games from scratch to a snowflake platform.
- depressedpanda 6y agoPorting a game to Linux and Vulkan does not require rewriting it from scratch.
- pjmlp 6y agoIt does because 99% of the game studios don't care about Linux, nor are that much into Vulkan, unless they are targeting Android or Switch.
- account42 6y agoThe graphics backend is really not such a big cost for most games, especially with existing cross-platform engines. Also the grahics APIs are really not that different as they all model the same GPUs. DirectX vs. OpenGL had some annoying things but most of them are only a problem when you have to translate and can't modify the calling code at all. DirectX 12 vs. Vulkan is even less of a difference.
- pjmlp 6y agoHow many Android and Switch games get published on GNU/Linux? Yep, it boils down to it.
- depressedpanda 6y agoLet's cool it with the hyperbole, okay? There are many reasons Android and Switch games don't get ported to Linux; having to rewrite the game from scratch is not one of them.
- pjmlp 6y agoWhich proves the point that even when games happen to be natively written against a Linux userland, with native support for Vulkan, it isn't economically viable to sell them on GNU/Linux.
- throwaways885 6y agoWhat's the alternative? Run Stadia on Windows?
- pjmlp 6y agoThat is exactly what Microsoft is doing.
- Wowfunhappy 6y agoBut there's no reason Google couldn't have done these things! They just... didn't.
- account42 6y ago> and letting them retain a lot of independence Except they misteriously stop releasing Linux versions of their games.