Bravo to Epic and team, but I have to say that the web will win out long term. It's cross platform, "just works" everywhere, and developers are free to choose from any payment system. They also don't have to live in fear from retribution by the platform owner.

Our startup Wonder is building a decentralized 3D platform in the browser for Unreal Engine 4 developers who want to ship their immersive applications on the web, be it games, product visualizations, even VR apps. We plan on extending support to Unity and other engines in the near future as well.

The biggest innovation is that we offer the tooling to optimize, package, and distribute rich software online that previously could only run on desktop. Thanks to WebAssembly, WebGPU, WebTransport, and WebXR, even the most demanding applications can run client side in the browser.

Developers are free to host their creations on their own terms, without a middleman saying what they can and can't do.

Here's a link to our Discord if you're interested in hearing more:

https://discord.gg/cFJV6Yu