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.
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
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.
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