Linux and Steam OS will continue to be an escape hatch, it is in their business interests to continue hedging their bets.
Just because the Microsoft Store didn't pan out a few years ago doesn't mean they won't try again.
Just because the Microsoft Store didn't pan out a few years ago doesn't mean they won't try again.
Every year since XP I keep reading how PC gamers will switch in droves to Linux because of X, instead those of us that really enjoy gaming and high performance graphics are on Apple, Microsoft, Google, Sony and Nintendo platforms.
>Apple >Nintendo
What? Nintendo and apple do not provide high performance graphics for gaming. Apple actively tries to kill gaming on their platform by not supporting vulkan and killing open gl and nintendo has never had high performance graphics.
Apple is not killing anything, anyone that has a name on the game industry already supports Metal, because professional game studios care about performance and productive tooling not about API religion wars.
Game consoles, outsolding any Linux based platform, also don't support Vulkan, so they are also killing gamming?
Yes, Switch does Vulkan, but their main 3D API is NVN and most of their titles are being done in Unity/Unreal, with Unity already having over 50% of Switch titles.
Currently there are no game consoles you could consider high performance but the switch is by far the lowest performance. Which is fine for what it is but it not even close to something you would substitute PC gaming with.
Not only did you get significant details wrong, but when faced with criticism, you immediately do an appeal to authority.
Not a good look.
First learn about what the corridors of IGDA, PAX, GDC, GDCE, Reboot Develop look like, then do your religious wars on graphics APIs.