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This part of the article needs a citation. Unity has been setting money on fire, but it hasn't been buying a market advantage. It's been burning money on highly

This part of the article needs a citation. Unity has been setting money on fire, but it hasn't been buying a market advantage. It's been burning money on highly, highly, highly questionable (at best) acquisitions like buying Weta and Iron Source as well an insane hiring spree and then paying those people for years for work and churn that Unity never actually manages to ship in the engine.

EricE 3y ago
They are trying to buy market advantage for their Iron Source acquisition - if you agree to use it then the per download fee's magically go away.
yterdy 3y ago
The other elephant in the room is that the owner of Unity's main competitor is quite a bit larger than it is. I can't say that anything Unity buys would give it a market advantage.
- meheleventyone 3y ago
  Second place and the niche for mobile which is lucrative and ‘XR’ which isn’t but could be isn’t too much to sniff at. I think it’s a mistake to think a healthy market is two companies or that the only thing spending buys is absolute dominance.
  - yterdy 3y ago
    I don't disagree. Please don't take my statement as a defense of Unity. The intended implication was, "A market sans Unity is not a robust and competitive space, it's Unreal as a monopoly." I don't know if there are many other options for mobile, but for XR (in this phase where UX norms are being hashed out), I really hope that people look beyond the two, and even dark horse Apple, to what Snap is doing. Even further: look at what people are doing with Dreams on the PS4/PS5 (https://twitter.com/MartinNebelong https://twitter.com/MartinNebelong). Part of why this hurts is that we let ourselves be taken in by a singular platform... again. Maybe standards with plenty of authoring options instead of cottage industries, next time.
    - gmerc 3y ago
      Unreal isn’t anywhere close to monopoly space. Especially not in mobile
      - HellDunkel 3y ago
        Cryengine, lumberjack, godot..
      - yterdy 3y ago
        Mostly because Unity exists.

EricE 3y ago

They are trying to buy market advantage for their Iron Source acquisition - if you agree to use it then the per download fee's magically go away.

yterdy 3y ago

The other elephant in the room is that the owner of Unity's main competitor is quite a bit larger than it is. I can't say that anything Unity buys would give it a market advantage.

meheleventyone 3y ago
Second place and the niche for mobile which is lucrative and ‘XR’ which isn’t but could be isn’t too much to sniff at. I think it’s a mistake to think a healthy market is two companies or that the only thing spending buys is absolute dominance.
- yterdy 3y ago
  I don't disagree. Please don't take my statement as a defense of Unity. The intended implication was, "A market sans Unity is not a robust and competitive space, it's Unreal as a monopoly." I don't know if there are many other options for mobile, but for XR (in this phase where UX norms are being hashed out), I really hope that people look beyond the two, and even dark horse Apple, to what Snap is doing. Even further: look at what people are doing with Dreams on the PS4/PS5 (https://twitter.com/MartinNebelong https://twitter.com/MartinNebelong). Part of why this hurts is that we let ourselves be taken in by a singular platform... again. Maybe standards with plenty of authoring options instead of cottage industries, next time.
  - gmerc 3y ago
    Unreal isn’t anywhere close to monopoly space. Especially not in mobile
    - HellDunkel 3y ago
      Cryengine, lumberjack, godot..
    - yterdy 3y ago
      Mostly because Unity exists.