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exclusives are nice for hardware makers that aim to sell more of their hardware, even if it's at the cost of selling less copies of that game.
So if Valve wants to sell more Decks an exclusive could help them, but their aim is not to sell more Decks, they couldn't care less if you played your games on PC, the Deck, GPD or Aya Neo.
I mean, technically it already has exclusives. Probably more than any other 'console'. Probably more than any console has games.
There is a vast, vast library of PC-only games. And because the Deck is an open platform it can play these games. From old classics like the Freespace series to shitty old flash games, you can play them on the deck.
And that's entirely because they made an open platform instead of the locked down stuff every other console does.
the game wouldn’t do well. Steam deck is great, but it is expensive and doesn’t have the footing as other platforms yet. It needs another year to hammer out stuff. But if valve released half-life part 3 on the deck I’d buy it.
steam deck is too open, having any exclusives would be not only pointless but even harmfull, due to fact that exclusivity would be forced by some kind of DRM, which stinks. Do not want. However it would be cool to have games that uses steam decks features more boldly, gyroscope and touch panels are damn cool and creative use of them should be encouraged!
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in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 • • •exclusives are nice for hardware makers that aim to sell more of their hardware, even if it's at the cost of selling less copies of that game.
So if Valve wants to sell more Decks an exclusive could help them, but their aim is not to sell more Decks, they couldn't care less if you played your games on PC, the Deck, GPD or Aya Neo.
For consumers less choice is always a bad thing.
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in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 • • •I mean, technically it already has exclusives. Probably more than any other 'console'. Probably more than any console has games.
There is a vast, vast library of PC-only games. And because the Deck is an open platform it can play these games. From old classics like the Freespace series to shitty old flash games, you can play them on the deck.
And that's entirely because they made an open platform instead of the locked down stuff every other console does.
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in reply to trekkie1701c • • •@trekkie1701c There's a big difference between actual exclusives, and games they haven't been ported over to other platforms due to various reasons
Exclusives are those that do it intentionally
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