Quoting: Guest

Quoting: DrMcCoyInstead, you need to make portability a feature of your code outright, you need to make the same single codebase run on all the individual platforms. No forks, just one portable repository that can run everywhere. That's not new knowledge either, we've known that for decades!

Proton totally nuked this concept.
There is only one platform for personal computer gaming and it's DirectX.
Even Apple gave up dedicated ports, they went fully Wine [External Link].

yeah they use one code base for all platforms...
directX on windows.
directX on top of wine on linux.

we can complain but facts are facts, linux is not sustainable for an game like this.
those companies dont spend 1 dollar and earn 100, linux have 1~2% marketshare on the desktop and even less if we count consoles, porting is not as expensive as making an entire game from scratch but there is no sense in spending as much money on linux as the other versions (playstation, xbox, pc), building something to be multiplatform from day 1 just mean you probably will have an horrible performance on all platforms and may break the budget before you make any cent.

if you dont believe go open your own company and prove how everyone else is wrong.

i hate to be the guy deffending big corportations here, but come on, there is an limit on how much we can lie to ourselves.
and no, indies being able to do that dont prove anything.

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We've seen this a few times over the years, due to a mixture of reasons but the ultimate reason is pretty much the same as always — Linux and Steam Deck together hold a less than 2% user share on Steam. For many developers, right now, it's not worth the extra overhead to continue Native support until there's more of a market.

even worse, linux marketshare is 1~2%... on the desktop!
50% of the market for this game is on consoles, the other 50% is on pcs.
and if this was an game that "works on mobile", this share would shink even more, that is, if mobile attracted the same type of gamer.

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valve already said they dont plan to relase steamdeck 2 any time soon, and i doubt they will introduce something that can make an significant difference in performance for the first gen...
but the competition will, the competition have no reason to not relase many products in this mean time, even if asus dont do that, we dont know how many other companies will try to enter this market, that is troublesome for the deck and steamOS as an result.

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Bugs that affect many titles is one of the fun parts of a translation layer like Proton, even a small change can potentially affect hundreds of games.

i think the same goes for any windows update, wich means either microsoft dont change many things or they break many things and dont care or they do a really good job at making sure things still work

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each day that passes, gaming dependence on windows shrink, hopefully faster than it increase...

i mean, steam receive more games per day than they are able to certify for steam deck (they cant even test then fast enough, the speed that the number of verfied,playable and unsuported list grow is slower than the speed that the number of games grow)
that said i dont think we get tons of new stores everyday, but today a lot of stores became easier to install on linux. (or the day that app was made)

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i hope they port gravity rush and tales of xilia, but i doubt they will

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you know its a trailer targeting pc gamers when they put tons of techinical details in the trailer...
sigh

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Quoting: elmapul

Quoting: pb> Why now though?

Perhaps they want to prevent Dolphin from being discovered and easily available for the SteamDeck crowd?

maybe they want to re-relase some of those games on switch , that will attract atention to many games that people forgoten about and they dont want those same people to know about any easy way to play then for free...

The thing is, it's not "for free". If you bought the old game, you've already paid for it. Essentially Nintendo is fighting tooth and nail to prevent their customers from playing games they've bought, and that's not a good look.

You can try to make this about piracy again but that's a whole different discussion, and not really an excuse when the paying customers get equally shafted in the process.

im not talking about people who own the game and cant play anymore.
if the consoles break with the time, that is a different discussion and in that case i agree they should have the right to play anyway.

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Quoting: pb> Why now though?

Perhaps they want to prevent Dolphin from being discovered and easily available for the SteamDeck crowd?

maybe they want to re-relase some of those games on switch , that will attract atention to many games that people forgoten about and they dont want those same people to know about any easy way to play then for free...

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Quoting: Penglingpromoting adult-rated games in non-adult-rated games,

example?

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