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I think the hope is that with the pressure of Valve, with the SteamBox and Steam OS, the game publishers will make that investment. Valve is also making consid
by pionar 12y ago
I think the hope is that with the pressure of Valve, with the SteamBox and Steam OS, the game publishers will make that investment.
Valve is also making considerable investment in abstracting away all that fragmentation and drivers worries through the Steam Runtime (linked to in another comment).
- cwyers 12y agoWell, yes, that's certainly the hope. But it's not necessarily a guarantee. It's a chicken-and-egg problem, and the thing about addressing it from the egg side alone is that not all eggs are chicken eggs. Even if you make Linux games, it's not guaranteed to result in chickens. Valve hasn't managed to come up with a single value proposition to make gaming actually better on Linux than Windows, or to come up with any games that run significantly better on Linux than Windows, or any exclusive Linux games.