valve said they will consider other color options if it sell well enough...
maybe they contacted valve and are planing to share the risks of not having an return of investment in diversifying options for steam deck...

not only colors but the whole plate

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great news, i havent played Ys series yet, but jRPGs are an must have for me, great to see that they care about linux related stuff even if linux wasnt the reason.

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Quoting: wvstolzing

Quoting: elmapul

Quoting: NanobangOne of these days Microsoft will acquire Microsoft and we'll all die from the resulting black hole.

lol

actually this day exists its called yesterday.

You mean their stock buybacks? yahoo finance link [External Link]

that was a joke, but, good point.

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im not surprise at this 5% on linux, lol, looks like using the penguin made people care more about penguins than the average joe.

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Quoting: Mohandevir

Quoting: elmapul"$68.7 billion"
xbox division dont have this kinda money AFAIK, so i guess the main microsoft company is involved, i doubt its to compete against sony and nintendo, this probably is their answer to valve.

which is so much money I can't even begin to imagine it.
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My guess is that it's an answer to Tencent acquisitions more than an answer to Valve. The US government as become pretty chilly, across the board, with China acquiring US interests, lately. Microsoft seems pretty fine with Valve and the Steam Deck.

microsoft main sources of revenue are:
office, azure and windows.
if steamOS can steal some marketshare from windows they will cut the good guys facade, if it cant, then microsoft wins anyway.

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Quoting: fagnerlnI don't know why you guys are worried, Activision/Blizzard is a cancer, a lot of bad practices. (I read that Diablo 2 ressurected has some "check in DRM" which you need to login every 30 days to keep playing)

And the first party games usually works on proton.

I mean, the war is against Sony, which to be honest, even with that huge amount of studios, PlayStation is still more interesting than XBox.

im worried about this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe%27s_law [External Link]

i may not care about actblizz games, but someone else do, and this person may care about the same games that i do, and if such person refuse to use linux on their steamdeck, because linux cant play actblizz games, then its one less person using steamOS on the deck, wich means one less reason for companies to care about it, if that include one company who make games that i care about, then their future relases might not work as well...

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Quoting: NanobangOne of these days Microsoft will acquire Microsoft and we'll all die from the resulting black hole.

lol

actually this day exists its called yesterday.

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Quoting: PikoloThis is sad news. Not that Activision Blizzard is a good company or anything, but Microsoft is already way too large. I hope antimonopoly regulations prevent this from going through.

your propic is familiar where is this from?

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so...
microsoft may not be able to convince many thirdy parties to adopt the latest directX standards, wich means, wine may be closer to perfection each year...
but they can acquire a lot of companies and then control they to force then adopt something that will make our lifes easier, if not impossible do develop something like wine.
(it take some time for wine to catch up with the latest apis or dx stuff, and if by that time they migrate the code to something new, then by the time something start working it break again, that is pretty much the reason why anti cheat is almost impossible to dodge)

if microsoft do it with enough critical franchises, we can kiss goodbye to any chances of improving linux share.

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Quoting: LordDaveTheKind

Quoting: GuestDon't forget Nintendo off that list

I recall there are a few constraints on acquiring a Japanese company. Am I wrong?

yeah, there are laws against being acquired by international companies, that is, if you are big enough.

and even if they tried, nintendo laughed at then once, they wont be trying again any time soon i guess.

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