Imagine you're bigcorp and you sell a game which features multiplayer PVP combat as your central feature. You can optimize your entire engine to kingdom come an

Imagine you're bigcorp and you sell a game which features multiplayer PVP combat as your central feature. You can optimize your entire engine to kingdom come and back, but if there are still latency issues, your developers get the blame. Outside of some AAA RPG and adventure games, most of the rest of the truly big games feature PVP content as their main selling point. Fifa, Call of Duty, Madden, Halo, Destiny, Fortnite, Apex Legends, DOTA, League of Legends, etc... they all live and die on network latency. They are the biggest of the big and if your platform doesn't have them AND run them well, you're dead. Hard to get someone to invest in your product knowing that your product is going to suck for the games people really want to play. I'm still not sure why Amazon hasn't bought Discord and Valve. Discord makes perfect sense as a complement to Twitch, and Valve would ensure that they basically own the entire PC gaming space.