Even if the Steam Deck is almost exclusively bought by people who already gamed on Steam, I think it's likely that it will cause them to game on Steam more than before. They will be able to game in situations where they couldn't before, and if part of their gaming was on other devices like consoles the Steam Deck may shift how much gaming they do on what.
If they game more on Steam, they may well also buy more games on Steam.

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Quoting: The_AquabatFAILED promises epic fail on Cyberpunk... sorry no steam fault but your own.

https://youtu.be/omyoJ7onNrg [External Link]

Thing is this is off topic. CD PROJEKT is in general doing fine; the article says right there "they saw overall 38% more sales revenue". It's GOG specifically that's losing money, not the game studio side. So whether Cyberpunk sucks or not, it doesn't matter to this article.

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Quoting: mrazsterSo maybe work a little on the defaults and then and the rework the system settings so you have "basic options" always shown. And then have the ability to expand to more "advanced options" when/if needed.

That's a pattern that they're specifically wary of [External Link]:

Yeah. I'm not sure they're right about that though.
And I mean, the extra options don't have to be very hidden, it could be just you click on that fuzzy line at the bottom of any given little options page that says "more options", and it sinks down and reveals them. And if you are a serious options person, well, you can have an option to reveal them all by default.

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Quoting: whizse...or just go about it the industry standard way and make sure your CEO throws up at the same parties as their CEO.

I dunno if Gaben is really into that kind of stuff. D'you think they could get by with just a Vice President of Partypuking?

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Quoting: MohandevirI think it as more to do with bad planning than "evil scheming". :grin:

In this particular case I'd agree. Not that Ubisoft is above a bit of evil scheming, though. :grin:

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Quoting: GuestSeems to me like it is exceedingly difficult for any PC game store to be profitable unless they sell Steam keys (or they are a big publisher profitable in other areas), such is the nature of Valve's stranglehold on PC gaming. I know so many linux users don't like a bad word said about Valve but their market power should concern everyone

I gotta agree. I mean, it's not like Valve are doing anything bad--it's a company's job to make money and grab market share, what else are they supposed to do?
But there's a tendency for that to result in one or a couple of firms grabbing most of the market share, and the results of that are almost always bad. With the advantage of size and, usually, the ability to put up barriers to competition, firms that dominate their sector are then able to stifle innovation that might threaten them, jack up prices and lower the quality of their product and generally mess over their customers. We're seeing it all over the place right now--using the excuse of things like supply chain disruptions and the perception of inflation, many companies, like grocery store chains, have been jacking up prices far more than their expenses have actually gone up, and are making huge windfall profits as a result. They're not even monopolies, but there are few enough of them that they can easily agree among themselves to all hose us together and not rock the boat.
That's why things like antitrust law came into being: Companies following the intended approach of what companies are supposed to do often leads to monopoly or cartel situations and that is bad.

It happens that Valve have actually done very little if any of that bad stuff. Not yet, anyway. Valve is a fundamentally weird company. But they are nonetheless, depending on your definition, a monopoly or near-monopoly in their field. They have the market power to do abusive stuff, they just don't seem to have abused it yet. It bears watching.

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Quoting: F.UltraWell here's to hoping. Wish I was a billionaire so that I could invest tons of money into creating the perfect Linux computer that was as slick as a Chromebook and have it been sold in normal stores. We need a new Canonical anno 2004 to pour resources into moving Linux closer to the customers.

It would need to be someone bigger than Canonical was. They did pour resources into a slick Linux device, worked out software packaging and distribution, took cues from Android about how to avoid the cruft of X11, developed an interface paradigm for convergence with the desktop... and then ran out of money, had to fire a bunch of people, and had to give up. So like Canonical, but with sufficient resources to be able to survive, say, 5 years more burn.

Maybe if Elon Musk decided open source was cool. :wink:

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Quoting: tuubiBut my phone I only use when I absolutely need to. It simply feels silly to try to do anything productive on a tiny touch screen when I've got more powerful hardware with better input methods and larger screens at hand. A smartphone has its advantages, mainly to do with it being small and easy to carry around with you, but it's never my first choice for getting something done or entertaining myself.

I don't actually own a cell phone.
But if I had one, my main stumbling block when it comes to using it for computer stuff would be, real keyboard. My main thing is word processing, walls of text on GamingOnLinux :grin: and the occasional spreadsheet. I want to type on a keyboard for that kind of stuff. I've typed texts on cell phones; my wife'll be doing something and says "Could you answer that, I want to tell her XYZ". It's painful.
(Maybe you wouldn't know the difference if you never learned to touch type, which it amazes me never became standard school curriculum. It just takes a term and you're set for life--I got a C-, but the skill was acquired, might have been the most useful thing I learned in high school)

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Quoting: F.UltraLinux desktop adoption is simply a long long process, if lucky we will some day reach macOS numbers but we will never reach Microsoft levels. That war was lost before Linux even existed when MS made sure with their shady business tactics that they got a large enough monopoly that PC equals Windows in everybody's mind.

You'd think that. But in some ways Microsoft has been too successful. When my wife got a Chromebook, and I was helping her figure out how to use it, it became apparent that she did not in fact really know what Windows was. She also didn't understand the distinction between a web browser and an operating system, or indeed between software and the OS in general. So the idea that the difference between her new dinky cheap laptop and her computer at work had a lot to do with the difference between a thing called Windows and a thing called ChromeOS, just didn't immediately have a meaning to her at all.
There are a lot of people out there like my wife. If some big computer manufacturer starts selling their computers with Linux on, an awful lot of people won't really get that there's a difference.

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Quoting: whizseNow, admittedly I only skimmed the eleven pages of comments. But, asteroids hit the earth, wiping out the dominant species, 65 million years later it leads to the decline of Google Stadia streaming service?

Did I get that right? Did I miss something? Was John Titor at any point involved?

Yeah, that's pretty much it. And I mean, the Google Stadia streaming service wouldn't have declined (or existed) without that asteroid, so fair comment I think.

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