This aspect is totally lost on so many people. Even apple partnered with them for games on their own platform.
It’s fiscally irresponsible for company directors to close that door in preference over a hobby emulator, while pretending that it isn’t intended to infringe on copyright.
I'm not sure if this applies in Valve's case, as I understand it, Valve is privately owned and held by Gabe Newell and what he says goes, so really the question is does he want to do this or not?
Nintendo is famous for its closed and closely controlled ecosystem.
Partnering with apple to release a mobile game is a bad (outlier) example as nintendo has no capabilities to release their own phone.
Why would Nintendo invite/open competition with steam deck? Why would they make it easier to pirate their games and give steam cut on the sales via steam store. All the while nintendo has their own console their own store.
Its like apple allowed android store on iOS. Sure they could do it but why would they?
Will Nintendo suffer the same fate? Highly unlikely. The Switch is doing great, the successor will probably do great. But then again, so did the Sega Genesis. There's no need to burn bridges.
> Will Nintendo suffer the same fate? Highly unlikely.
In next you suggest not to discount something "Highly unlikely".
That's basically a Pascal Wager territory.
Building closed off ecosystem is Nintendo's whole business, you making business decisions based on idea Nintendo might upend their whole business is... wasteful?
One could argue that making easy to install Dolphin is an incentive to sell steam deck. So people can play switch games without having switch
Speaking for previous experience in the music industry, It wasn't uncommon for some A&R or label to become "persona non grata" for personal or "political" (rocking the boat too much with some untouchable manager or artist) reasons and getting the boot from most if not all big publishers and distributors.
I wouldn't be surprised if something similar was going on in the gaming industry.
Gaben could put a video out tomorrow of him burning piles of Nintendo merchandise and swearing that Steam will never do business with Nintendo and both Gaben and Valve would be fine.
It's hard to conceive of how much money an entity like Valve has and how fast it continues to accumulate.
Steve Jobs was notorious for shit listing companies like AMD or Nvidia and it doesn't seem to have been detrimental to Apple whatsoever.
The difference is that Apple has alteratives to AMD CPUs and Nvidia GPUs. Whereas the Nintendo products are unique.
It might be used for that but it isn’t intended to by the developers