The steam deck is a way different value proposition compared to consoles though, console manufacturers take a loss for initial consoles sold until they can bring costs.
Whereas the steam deck has likely been sold as a profit from day one.
Whereas the steam deck has likely been sold as a profit from day one.
It would be better overall for competition for the games to be decoupled from the console. Same as with phone apps
Because that was Epic’s end game.
Whose job would it be to maintain all of the compatibility layers for the custom hardware that consoles generally contain?.
Who pays for all the work to allow you to do whatever you want on your device?.
The community's? I don't think anyone expects the vendor to officially support anything other than the OS it ships with. We just want the option to use our own software on the hardware we purchased.
> Who pays for all the work to allow you to do whatever you want on your device?.
Surely it's more work to go the extra mile to restrict access?
If anything, the iPhone is the odd one out for having hardware margins that don't suck.