Steam is a ticking time bomb
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The decline of the Steam games platform is inevitable, and there are already warning signs.

The decline of the Steam games platform is inevitable, and there are already warning signs.

  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    18 hours ago

    x86 accelerator

    Why? Steam isn’t all that heavy, so it should run just fine through Rosetta.

    The bigger problem is getting games to support macOS, which:

    • uses a different CPU arch in newer hw
    • uses a different graphics API
    • has very few users who want to play games
    • doesn’t seem to reach out to game devs
    • can’t be packaged into an interesting form factor (e.g. handheld PCs)

    It would make more sense for Valve to court mobile users than macOS. It would also be a lot easier to use a VM, though performance would probably suck.