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With gaming: - You're not producing a good that people need. Gaming entertainment is actually a pretty thin segment of goods. - You can get free distribution
by echelon 2y ago
With gaming:
- You're not producing a good that people need. Gaming entertainment is actually a pretty thin segment of goods.
- You can get free distribution easily (desktop, web, etc.). Other platforms are just increasing your market opportunity and you can charge a thicker margin to get onto them if you want to.
- Physical distribution has costs
- Servers and multiplayer have costs
With mobile:
- Applications do everything from dating, jobs, food, payments, etc. It's anything and everything, and a lot of them are absolutely essential for modern life.
- Apple and Google are the market. There is no alternative. They're a duopoly and embed their talons into everything.
- The app store is artificial. There's nothing stopping web downloads of applications, and any security concerns could be met with signing, risk signal heuristics and reporting, and application sandboxing.
There should be no "App Store Requirement" to deploy a native app. Period.
Furthermore, there should be no requirement to integrate with the duopoly's payment stack, messaging stack, or any other platform choice enforced upon you.
- dijit 2y agoNot 100% sure I agree. You can distribute anything you want; as long as it's a web-app. Nobody is running random .exe's in 2024; but you have random, arbitrary, untrusted code that runs in heaps and has access to the GPU via websites. You have the same constraints we do, except it's easier to make a web application for dating, jobs, food, payments - than it is to do high-poly AAA games.
- ProfessorLayton 2y ago> You're not producing a good that people need. Gaming entertainment is actually a pretty thin segment of goods. The gaming industry is larger than the film and music industry combined, and is the single largest revenue source for mobile app stores, by far. The worldwide industry was worth roughly ~282B last year [1] For comparison, the entire US farming industry is 203.5B [2] Hardly small. [1] https://www.fortunebusinessinsights.com/gaming-market-105730 https://www.fortunebusinessinsights.com/gaming-market-105730 [2] https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/gallery/chart-detail/?chartId=58270 https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/gallery...