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> The reason why I'm personally sticking with the iPhone is exactly the walled garden. I was thinking about this and video games lately. The Nintendo Switch, X
by gjsman-1000 3y ago
> The reason why I'm personally sticking with the iPhone is exactly the walled garden.
I was thinking about this and video games lately. The Nintendo Switch, Xbox, PlayStation; they have some pretty mediocre games if you go looking. But it's still nothing compared to the biggest attempt at a fully open platform for games (OUYA; and long before them, Atari). That went well... and so, even the App Store, you can find bad apps and scams, but every time we have a store that has no enforcement it's amazing how quickly things get overrun.
It's sometimes shocking how some developers can be such lowlifes, that they will take a game and do an asset swap fifty or a hundred times to make a buck by crowding the storefront. Or just release games shamelessly that are completely nonfunctional or have nothing to do with the advertising. It's just stuff you can hardly believe people who program games would ever make. Where's the sense of shame for releasing things that are objectively garbage by every criteria and charging $30 for it? (Again, just look at the OUYA when they tried. 90% of it made Superman 64 look like a masterpiece.)
- giobox 3y ago> But it's still nothing compared to the biggest attempt at a fully open platform for games (OUYA; and long before them, Atari). That went well... and so, even the App Store, you can find bad apps and scams, but every time we have a store that has no enforcement it's amazing how quickly things get overrun. I think its silly to suggest OUYA or Atari being the biggest "open" platforms - Steam dwarfs them and is a runaway success story across multiple OSes for decades.
- Panzer04 3y agoEr... Windows PC says hello? Arguably Microsoft isn't "fully" open but Windows PC gaming is as open as it gets, and for all the complaints it is glorious compared to almost all other alternatives, if we're honest.
- eloisant 3y agoConsidering how easily you can run Windows games on Linux, it makes the platform even more open.