i hate to say that, but that decision will have an negative effect on us, and positive on then.

iOS is a "money making machine" so many game engines support metal or will support metal so they can be used to make iOS apps, now that apple will ditch support for iOS its more likely that more games will support metal than they will keep suporting openGL.

we have an lower marketshare, most big companies will ditch support for linux insteda of mac.

apple is the richest tech company, even if some companies dont want to support then, they can afford to purchase some support including exclusive games.

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Quoting: PsychojauApple and Microsoft are insane. They want to think about their platforms as gaming consoles. When you port a graphical application on PS4, you have 2 APIs : 1 high level and one low level specifically made to optimize the rendering for a specific hardware. Here, they don't have this excuse. The hardware is never the same, so you need some kind of "adaptable" APIs. Vulkan is the logical, pragmatic solution.
They are trying to steal as much freedom as they can, imprisoning their users / developers to squeeze out as much cash flood as possible for themselves and only them *mwahahaha*... in the multi-platform era : They are insane and dangerous !
I hope Atari VCS will be a success (near 10000 donators ! ^^ ). I really do !

10.000 donators isnt enough.
atari vcs made 2,512,524 until now, i dont know how they will end, but ouya made 9 millions in their campaing and their console was an disaster.

why would you develop for an platform with 10.000 users when you can develop for an platform like ps4 with 70 millions of users?
ouya focused on indie developers, but sony added suport for indie games on ps4 and a touchpad killing all the ouya apeal, even the developers who tried couldnt afford to make games for ouya.
even if everyone who purchased an atari vcs purchase your game, that is not enough to justify an port of an game that sell millions on other platforms

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Quoting: antisolTalk about how "it could be good for github", and I'll talk about how skype used to have end-to-end encryption and a usable Linux client.

to be fair, skype isnt usable on windows either, everyone is ditching it in favor of discord

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"with a Radeon R7 GPU so it's not exactly a powerhouse."great...
" It will come with 4GB DDR4 RAM"
half of what an ps4 have, and looks like sony is already planing for an ps5.
" 32GB eMMC"
and not enough space for more than 1 triple A game, great, just what we need another indie box...

" It will come with 100+ classic Atari games pre-loaded"
also know as Atari Vaul, 10 dollars on steam.

" They're saying by the launch in Spring 2019, that they're planning to have 'new and exclusive games'."
considering that they needed an crowdfunding to raise a few bucks for porting rollercoaster tycoon, i wonder what kind of exclusive they can pay for.

but at least they will do exclusive titles.

" I really do hate exclusives,"
i hate to say that, but there isnt a world without exclusives, there is either an world with thousands of windows exclusive titles and a few multiplatform titles, or a world where everything is multiplatform except for a few exclusives.

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tons of issues here...

the interface is too slow.
the game boot without any image
i cant assign my gamepad properly
and the full screen dont work either

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"Two-player online multiplayer "
finally, i wonder why it took so long.

"Additional graphics filters & border options"
the only filter that i would use is CRT filter.
everything else is for heretics

"ROMs from other regions for games with significant differences"
YEAH! fucking yeah!

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i'm interested due to the steam punk aspects, but i already have more games in my wish list than i think its humanly possible to play in a single life, so i might skip that.

also they are promissing too much, an game should have focus, making an story that you can influence, build your own story is hard enough.
if they focus on story teling, they may achieve something close to that, but instead they will have an combat system with many options, they will have to sacrifice one of those 2 things.
either they have no idea that they will need to do that, or the game will be limited in one of those 2 things
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" rather than Victorian-era androids that are far more high-tech than what we do have now, but still I like it. "

agree

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Higurashi is a classic, it made enough sucess to become an anime (and one of my favorites)

i dont know if any of those games have ecchi, but if valve keeps their policy on censorship, i highly recomend to purchase those games on gog

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f*** off valve, either apply the same rule to the big ones and small ones, or don't apply at all.
ooh, but they dont want to piss off the Rockstart ones and CDPR ones...

i will note all my games on the wishlist of another store before they remove or get censored

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Quoting: slaapliedjeI wonder if at some point Wine (or something similar) will be ported to Windows 10. With all the Linux subsystems being released, I kind of half expect them to ditch the NT kernel. Ha! Wouldn't that be the day?

there is demmand for that, just look at gog and how they use dosbox.

Quoting: MayeulCI guess they will slowly break Win32 compatibility to push people towards UWP apps. This might have the side effect of pushing them towards Linux/Wine

we cant count on MS shooting then selfs on their foot as our trump card.
sure they will break win32 bits compatibility in order to push UWP, but that will only make their apps run on arm devices as an result.
and someone will port wine to UWP format to keep seling old games.

there is no way arround it, either we make some killer exclusives or the market will not change .

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