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Microsoft eyes closing its giant Activision Blizzard deal next week
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I’m concerned with the state of consolidation in the gaming space (and just about every other market, I might add) but I also find it hard to argue they’re a monopoly. They’re number three in the console space and thanks to Proton Microsoft’s de facto stranglehold on PC gaming OS’s is weaker than ever. I could see cloud gaming being a problem in the future but it’s such a nascent market who knows what will happen there.
I think consolidation creates many issues even if it isn't a full monopoly right now. Like making it easier for that full monopoly to show up later.
Can you elaborate? I had to miss something...
Proton is the abstraction layer that Valve made to allow the steam deck to easily play games developed for windows. It’s made the moat that Microsoft has in the PC gaming space a lot more shallow. It’s based on Wine
And Proton is so good that can at times exceed the performance you can get on native windows. Mind, it is rare.
So i guess this can be included in other Linux OSs to help with game compatibily and that's why it's a big deal? Or just foe the steamdeck (sorry for maybe stupid question but I'm completely new to this).
To my knowledge proton works across Linux distros but I’m not positive