If is designed to work on Linux (Linux drivers), that’s all you need to distro-hop the device until the end of time

First off that’s a strawman It’s not just one guy.

If you discuss with an idiot, he can drag into his idiocy; there’s no need to defend Ross Scott, the issue is completely different level.

His (the person you reply to) whole argument is more on the line “they lose, so it mean they must be wrong” (or doing something wrong.

Picture the global politics today: human rights are failing all over and someone say “human rights advocate are losers, and I am cool by saying this”.

There’s dissonance between what people think they say, and what they actually say. @ImplyingImplications thinks he’s cool because denounce the losers while in fact he’s just saying “I don’t deserve these rights” <- he’s the only true loser because his enemies didn’t need to start the fight from the beginning (at the last with himself).

All you have listed are IP, as Nintendo one; the issue is that Nintendo’s IP can be commercially produced for Nintendo’s hardware only. PC don’t have “company IP” (and that’s one of its strength, openness), even Commander Keen appeared on Gameboy Color.

In order to keep with PC openness nature, I would suggest something that come from and to the community itself:

https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/PC-Tan

Weaknesses: Often spaces out remembering old consoles that have passed on (e.g. Dreamcast, Super Nintendo), bursts into tears from these memories as well

Easy as

I/II= ,V

(OK, that was confusing, it’s I/II= .V in barbaric` )

Make small admission to hide a bit trick.

They never care about having a good video game store, they want a good frontend for Fortnite.

Epic is eyeing Roblox: any good game made, no matter where it is sold, will become endlessly cloned in Roblox… almost all the money spend in Roblox, remain in Roblox.

A good game in Epic Game Store? Soon or later it will go on Steam, and Epic will lose some potential money, will go on PSN, and Epic will lose some potential money, will go on Xbox Store and, you guessed, Epic will lose some potential money.

They are pushing hard for artist and coder to get stuck in the Fortnite “Roblox Wannabe” metaverse; that’s their only true goal. Lure developer, trap developers (I would say “Roblox lure child, trap child”, but it sound excessively weird)

I hope more and more indie will start taking Unity space away and turn to Godot,: foolish CEO can destroy the indie alternative to AAA status equo ( Sony, Microsoft, and Epic as their servant). But once on Godot, the engine is in fully in the hands of the people.

They see Epic Game Store as constant revitalization, together with free game: the idea is, indie developers come to EGS to have their recognition (like among us, rocket league, lethal company and many other had); once in the EGS will bombard the customs with fortnite deals… in some cases even cloning successful indie game mechanics in fortnite (it did happen with among us). Basically they want to brute force the indie gaming industry in fortnite: the “metaverse” money they all see in roblox (Facebook, google etc.)

What am I missing here?

Roblox, aka: the money Epic wants

People “justify” Valve, I don’t think there’s need for that (justify a big corpo, I mean); Valve don’t want to deal with the hardware business side of repairing stuff; yeah, it’s their right to do so: but this also tell us Valve isn’t mature enough as hardware company, and you can’t expect them to mature in this direction if they (also) don’t get serious into providing affordable repair service.

This tells me: Steam Deck 2? Maybe… Steam Deck 3? Unlikely. They will push for an “alternative OS”… and will lose for lack of focus (Microsoft can easily kick them out with the Windows industrial’s weight). As far I can see, they are not committed to hardware, no other OEM will do this for them.

(Look at how Google has been consistent with their ‘Google Phone’ throughout the entire history of Android: they know it’s foolish to rely only on ‘OEM goodwill’ and stop there. Google Pixel devices were better than Windows Mobile and the ‘DualBoot’ Android/Windows… that’s how Google beat Microsoft in the race)

Title fixed, no idea how could I slip that. 🫥

fixed.

I don’t even understand what they mean…

Something on the line “We wish we could charge you the 80$, AAA, price; hoverer, we didn’t implemented decent AI bot for you to play with/against… so we need players themselves to do the job”

TL;DR: 20€/$

It’s not a game, but a very laggy fps camera ornated with Quake II textures. That’s actually what’s in it. There are far greater example if someone wants to make good example with AI; but I think Carmack found himself trapped to speak about this because it relate his job on different angles.

Looks like they saw what Intel presented one year before ChatGPT popularized AI and they said “Woah, that stuff from Intel it’s cool… let’s also us make a pointless version!”

A PC, supposedly being able to replace OS, would be counterproductive as it would “disturb” Xbox closed ecosystem if successful. Something locked like a modern android smartphone would be a bit more conservative, but still dangerous if successful.

At this point the most closed/safer option for Microsoft is to simply roll out a mobile Xbox (protected and customized hardware to make impossible to use as alternative). Microsoft could sell at loss, and they could decisively go below SteamDeck price and count that “sleepy Valve” wouldn’t counterattack with anything.

GTAVI will not be just a console exclusive, probably it will become an Epic Store exclusive on PC. There could be tons of useless discussion about what companies shoud or should not do; but in the end, companies exist only to the extend of their customer’s money. T2 strategy paid off, becouse their customer bougt GTAV repetedtly when came on PS3 generation, then PS4, then PS4Pro, then Epic Store and etc. etc.They sold one single AAA multiple time with relatively low effort (definetly not the cost of this many AAA games): their growth was done on their customer’s stupidity, so they now employ the same exact stratgy that works on stupid people… and make money.

BattleBorn, Lawbreakers, Skull&Bones and Concord; the biggest f* to AAA (and “AAAA”) industry. You crash, so the Indie rise.

They will monetize GTVI like GTAV, they will double/triple dip with exlusivity on both hardware (console) and PC launcher (Epic): customers wallet voted for this to the bone.

Well the industry is looking at Baldur’s Gate 3 to learn how fantasy RPG are supposed to be made. CEO thinks the only thing really missing is the only thing BG3 does NOT have.