Microsoft says Sony paid third parties to keep games off Xbox

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    At this point I’m more concerned with Windows exclusivity. Obviously there’s a financial incentive for Xbox to only release on Windows, but it’s hard to argue you’re not locked into a platform in a similar way.

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        When games are developed for “PC” that means “Windows” unless otherwise noted. If something works on Linux or OSX that is usually specifically called out on the game.

        The direction Windows is going with Win11 is concerning enough that a non-trivial number of people (myself included) are planning a move to Linux for desktop workstations once Win10 goes EOL next year. At that point I’d be locked out of games that only work on Windows in the same way I’m locked out from console exclusives. (And yes, I know it’s possible to emulate/Wine/dual boot - all of those options still require a license that I’m not interested in.)

        Steam seems to be pushing Linux pretty hard, and it’s working for a lot of develoeprs, but there’s still a lot of AAA games not jumping on that bandwagon.

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          Define “a lot of AAA games” ? Because right now almost everything on Steam just works on Linux besides the odd multiplayer games, and even that is slowly getting support. Heck, I even installed the just out Lies of P demo the other day, worked first try, no glitch, very good performance, like a native game.

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          Now, i did mean exclusivity deals, because developers being contractually obligated to not develop for apple or linux, is very much different from developers not wanting to.

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              I thought that the Mac could run Wine.

              EDIT: Yeah, it can. It’s even in the title of the winehq.com main page.

              Valve may not have people working on making it a seamless experience a la Linux, but I bet that one can get most of the same games working if one bangs on it.

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                  Why, did Apple switch the Macs to ARM recently?

                  googles

                  Man, they did. I was with them for the PowerPC era, and that was a terrible idea. Well, I guess we’ll see what happens.

                  googles

                  Yeah, looks like they got it working back then.

                  https://www.tomshardware.com/news/wine-uncorks-on-m1

                  Mac users with M1 chips powering their sleek hardware but still hankering to run Windows apps on it take note: software compatibility layer Wine, which is definitely not an emulator, has made this possible in a recent update.

                  Wine 6.0.1 is a maintenance release, but the ability to run 64 bit Windows apps on MacOS Big Sur for M1 Macs (along with more than 60 other bugfixes) is a bit of a big deal, as it doesn’t support Boot Camp, and none of the big virtualization apps has managed to get X86 Windows running yet, only the Insider Preview version of the ARM port.

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            Valve has Steam run Windows games on Linux under Proton, their version of WINE.

            There are a couple of notable games that don’t run under it (Command:Modern Operations is a notable one that drives me nuts), but these days, pretty much everything works.