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PC gamers buy way more games that cost less than $30 at launch compared to PlayStation and Xbox players, analysts say, and it's "reshaping the PC market" (www.gamesradar.com)

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Schedule 1, Peak, and REPO lead a big year for small games

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[-] Gmak2442@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

With Steam, there is probably more low cost tittle. I mean normally or in the public.

[-] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago

Pretty soon they'll notice that Pac-Man is still pretty good. Lol.

[-] belunos@lemmus.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

I've been on an incremental kick lately, those are usually cheap as hell, and addictive

[-] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

People like getting their money's worth out of their hobbies? Never would have guessed.

[+] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com -15 points 2 weeks ago

Because a lot of indie games don't come to consoles (or at least Xbox — I see a lot of Steam/PlayStation releases or Steam/Switch releases).

I see a ton of cool indie games I'd love to play, but I can't because they require Windows. I don't think a game should be able to be called indie if it requires you to use Windows (or macOS, what I use), exclusively. Like if you're "independent" of Windows (macOS or Linux) or "independent" of Apple (Windows or Linux), they should be making their game available to you. That means, of course, supporting all three platforms. Linux and macOS are both based on UNIX (if you go back far enough). Switch and Mac use the same CPU architecture (ARM64). Linux has the best handheld support. And Windows has the biggest install base. So it's really worth it to support all four of those. And then Xbox and PlayStation use the same architecture as PC gaming, x86-64 with a GPU. So it's really all connected and, unless one platform is sponsoring the game somehow (at which point, it isn't indie), no platform's players should be left out. JMO

[-] chunes@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

You're only about 10 years too late for anyone to give a single crap about native linux

[-] mrbigmouth502@piefed.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago

Proton's a little more recent than that. I still remember the bad old days of Steam on Linux from 2013-2017 where Proton didn't exist yet, and running the Windows version of Steam through WINE was a PITA. Heck, Proton didn't really start to get good until about 2021.

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