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frazw@lemmy.world 1 day ago
“Sells hardware at a loss to hook you into the steam ecosystem and make more money by selling you software” FTFY
Don’t get me wrong, as companies go I like valve, but to say they aren’t making decisions based on making more money and just out of altruistic motives is madness. Businesses that aren’t healthy and competitive die, even if they have rabid fans.
d00ery@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Steam deck supports Xbox live streaming, gog, epic via lutris and heroic. Is about as far from a locked down ecosystem as one could possibly get.
…microsoft.com/…/xbox-cloud-gaming-in-microsoft-e…
frazw@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Never said it was locked. But being locked or unlocked doesn’t change the motivation and is irrelevant to my point. The more people on the steam ecosystem, the better for them. It is far easier to use steam on the steam deck than any of the options you put forward. Even so, not preventing their use means people are more likely to buy the steam deck, which in turn means they are more likely to use steam as their primary store.
Epic, etc are not a default and at the beginning were not easy to get working.
Oh and you got it the wrong. Those things support the steam deck (usually via third party hacks), the steam deck doesn’t support them, it you would be able to install them from the steam store with tight integration into the library by default. It just doesn’t prevent them. That is a BIG difference. But yes, doing similar things on other hardware might not be possible or at least as easy. I’m grateful their are so many enthusiasts out there making such things possible.
d00ery@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I quite explicitly named lutris and heroic which are 3rd party apps. These apps are installable via Discover which is the app store running on the OS. I’d agree the wording could be seen as ambiguous.
Sony and Xbox do NOT support any other app stores on their devices - I think the use of support is clear and understandable in this statement.
frazw@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yes Discover is part of the Linux distro, not the valve added value. It is by virtue of their choice to base on an established Linux rather than anything. Again lutris and heroic both support steam deck not the other way around.
But none of this changes my original point. Valve wasn’t you to use the steam store. The stream deck is a tool to get you to do that. You are free to bypass because they don’t stop you, but they are willing to take a loss on hardware because they know it means more sales on the steam store. Or they wouldn’t be here much longer.
You seem to think if I were to write an app for Windows and release it tomorrow that it means Microsoft support my app.