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2·1 day agoIf you observe the ARM gaming ecosystem, you see smartphone are the most common gaming device on the planet… “Android Linux” (quotes for emphasis) is not recognized, in the Linux sphere, mostly because proprietary driver (in the gaming context: GPU’s drivers).
If we accept “Android as Linux”, Linux is the most common gaming platform (beyond Windows), if we don’t… Linux is just a niche in the gaming industry.
You can see where the problem is: if every Android smartphone was capable to “install” any regular Linux distro, tides could change in a glimpse. If not Valve Gaming, there may be Samsung Gaming… and so go on…
Competition to Intel+AMD+Nvidia.
There may not be a problem of Japan itself, but the act of this specific company in Japan that’s responding to the “induced” PC hardware crisis. The induced doesn’t mean that’s some natural development (such as people is not buying PC anymore) but because critical components and materials (such as GPU/ram/SSD) are currently absorbed by the ongoing AI bubble eating and eating resources that are key for PC manufacturing.
The problem is “based anywhere”: no party based on a single nation should have censorship control on the global market of a technology (high-end gaming on PC in this case). The problem is not “America bad”, but the presence of America in control of many modern technologies (social network, AI, advertisement, media etc.) makes U.S. a recurring target for bigotry that mess with the overall market (this don’t mean that U.S. have a global-wise issue with bigotry, things could be worse is so many key market were in the hands of any religious zealot country (being Muslim, Christian, Hebrew etc.).
We’re are losing a world that was heading to technological decentralization (emails, websites, interconnected communities (such as forums, irc, bulletin boards), cryptocurrencies etc: this is going to screw with everyone, U.S. citizen themselves also.
…probably also a 400$/€ PC, but here’s the plot twist: it did cost 400$/€
After cutting the price to reach greater audience (originally too expensive) Sony had to remove Linux support from Playstation 3 because companies where amassing lot of those things to set up some sort of DIY supercomputers.
It needs to be cheap.
However, when comparing to the power of locked up device such as ps5, it never hurts reminds that the supposed GPU processing power of a ps5 doesn’t come for free… even if you’ve fully paid your console. Aside for demos or jailbreaked devices (piracy on console) the only way to run graphics at full potential on the locked ps5 is paying full AAA (which now is settling around 80$/€) for EACH product. There are alternatives in the spending (ie: the Netflix alike from Sony’s store)… but those are only options that Sony allow you to (you can’t run weekly free games from EGS, itch.io… or even web browser games!).
Whatever power you pay for any generic PC potentially cover you in any way: you can play arcade vector games as Asteroid at 4k (or even teorical 32K when the hardware will exists).
The difference Valve could make is showing the topical console gamer customer an easy to use access to it: once they’ll see the light… things may go different also for console-only customers (Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo wouldn’t want to lose more customers to Valve’s better deal)
I doubt that the Steam Machine outperforms anything made in the last 5-10 years.
It’s all about the price… and the very recent years weren’t exactly kind in relation for price per performance
It’s mostly a poker game: you need to call with money to keep playing, otherwise you “fold” and they win… even if the winner got shitty (“no papers”) cards.
You can buy it on ebay or alike: a PC/PS2 dvd is basically a license (even if it’s broken: once bought the disc you can download the same exact version of the disc you own…under the EU laws, not sure about elsewhere but nations in the British commonwealth have strong customer protection ).
I am not defending IP laws, I am avoiding people making confusion about what’s SKG scope. I am completely in favor of a similar initiative that addressees IP craziness; but it need to be appropriately represent on what the initiative is about.
Broadly spreading the scope of an initiative is a hostile technique to sink the initiative down: I don’t know if you’re aware of the PirateSoftware fiasco: he tried to say that the initiative would force companies to keep server online forever… just to basically spread the idea “this is impossible, so SKG is impossible”. Luckily SKG initiative was appropriately (and painstakingly patently) readdressed by Ross Scott calling on PirateSoftware, de facto, BS.
SKG address a different issue than NOLF’s IP hellscape.
When a game is killed it doesn’t mean either is free or random shops can sell it without agreement with the right’s holder: only people who bought it previously are (and must be) allowed to play.
I would add
[]to the title, just to be sure
Last week argument in the PR team: “do we middle finger to our possible paying customers or not?”
It was an heated discussion.
Any device that come with SteamOS by default, is a device that doesn’t come with both Windows and Xbox game store by default. Basically Valve isn’t paying for the OS, it’s paying for devices that run Steam Store by default (instead direct, unfair, competition from Microsoft)
Can Windows PC come by default with Steam Store? Of course… if Microsoft allow them to.
mini PC things.
…or PC things, but mini.
1·6 months agoMicrosoft: Fuck you, you piece of shit. I’m firing every one of you motherfuckers so I can buy another 30 Ferrari’s.
Nintendo: We are not going to do that.
Lemmy: –
Lemmy: points PocketPair
One year ago, right at the beginning of the petition, PirateSoftware came out misreading the initiative by suggesting the idea the petition was about forcing indie developer to host their server, at their expense, forever and other stupid idea on this line. A fabricated these narrative to act as the typical popular youtubers that say endlessly: “this is st0pid, they are st0pid”. The fabricated narrative confused other popular YouTubers with mixed feelings; and there was very little support. This assured PirateSoftware the first place on the youtube rankings when you search for “stop killing games”, plus had lot of kids brainwashed into thinking " this is st0pid". This kind of criticism never went away completely, the were partially silenced by the very recent roaring as people understood correctly what it was actually about. As SKG keep hitting its milestone the angered roar did lowered, so now you can ear again the “this is st0pid” team
“It’s a security hole that endangers democracy itself.” NieR creator speaks out against payment processors pressuring Japanese adult content platforms
NieR creator Yoko Taro comments on the series of instances of Japanese adult platforms being pressured by credit card payment processors.
I understand what you mean; but Android isn’t even a regular proprietary either: you can’t build the like LineageOS or Amazon’s Fire OS with iOS or Windows Mobile (Apple or Microsoft will sue you; Google can’t).
Anyway, the point is not Android itself: but Linux’s opensource stacks access to the GPUs (with OSS drivers) beyond AMD, Intel and Nvidia.