Comment on Why doesn't Steam support Android?
Chesckers@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Maybe, just maybe, they are waiting for proton for ARM to be a thing.
Imagine having actually a big percentage of your steam games just work on android. Now that would be disruptive for the market.
If it worked like I imagine it would.
It’s not that simple. Proton implements the Windows API functions required to run a Windows game on Linux, but it’s not a CPU emulator. Emulating x86 on ARM at the speeds required by a game is virtually impossible.
If Steam comes to ARM / Android, it would have to be a whole separate ecosystem of games. But Valve is late to the game there since we already have several players on that market, not least the standard Google Play Store.
Emulating x64 on ARM at the speeds required by a game is virtually impossible.
This has been done and it works reasonably well on a case by case basis.
Much like protondb they have a list of confirmed broken and working games.
mp3@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Knowing Valve, they wouldn’t wait but build the thing.
Personally, I’d be happy to have another place to buy Android games that isn’t Google Play, Amazon or Epic Games.