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[LakeOf9]

This is it. The core gaming industry has rallied around three platforms, each with more than 100 million active users, each selling billions of games, each giving third parties large, receptive audiences to sell to. There are differences in all of them of course - other than the exclusives unique to each platform, they each specialize in different things; Steam and PC gaming is open, flexible, and all about giving users and developers options. PlayStation is the go to, premier, default console option. If you want to play games but don't want to muck with PCs, PlayStation is the way to go. Nintendo is the go to, premier, default portable and family-friendly option, prioritizing local multiplayer, user friendliness, and toy style hardware gimmicks.

With Xbox on the way out, and Steam starting to proliferate the platform beyond just PCs thanks to Steam Deck, SteamOS, and rumoured upcoming Steam OEM consoles, as well as Switch 2 anticipated to set sales records, and absorb a lot of third party support Nintendo didn't get before, plus PlayStation's ongoing dominance, means these three platforms are it. The big three for the industry.

 

[The Lunch Legend]

With Xbox on the way out

 

[GHG]

The holy trinity.

 

[bender]

 

[March Climber]

We must uphold the RGB balance.

 

[LakeOf9]

We must uphold the RGB balance.

The green self combusted spontaneously though

 

[GHG]

We must uphold the RGB balance.

The cross through the green was poetic.

 

[Little Chicken]

Steam needs more competition. I hope other companies start creating PC gaming storefronts, Apple perhaps.

 

[TintoConCasera]

There's way more to PC than just Steam.

 

[LakeOf9]

There's way more to PC than just Steam.

Yes there is, but Steam the platform is what I am talking about in the OP (for good or for bad)

Steam needs more competition. I hope other companies start creating PC gaming storefronts, Apple perhaps.

Steam really has not needed competition so far to act in its user base's best interest

Also Apple already has a storefront on Mac.

 

[I collect VHS tapes]

I think I have more games on GOG than Steam

Edit: I feel like the OP does a bit of a disservice as to how good Nintendo games are and feeds into the narrative that they just make little kids games. All games are for kids. Don't delude yourself into thinking you're more of an adult because you're playing on a PlayStation or PC.

Gaming is a kids hobby.

 

[yogaflame]

It looks like it is. The triangle offense like Jordan, Pippen, and Rodman of gaming industry

 

[GHG]

Steam needs more competition. I hope other companies start creating PC gaming storefronts, Apple perhaps.

Steam currently has more competition than any of the console manufacturers have ever had.

It's not their fault that with the exception of GOG, their competition suck.

 

[R3TRO]

Still too many.

We need a big two.

 

[tkscz]

I miss read the title as The big TREE and thought this thread was about an indie RPG

 

[TintoConCasera]

but Steam the platform

Sorry to bother but could you please define platform for me?

Because imo the platform is the place where you play, the PC. Steam is just a storefront and distributor, just like GOG. I dunno, it would be like calling PSN a platform, when the plaform imo would be whatever Sony console you are accessing PSN from.

Still too many.

We need a big two.

Nah fuck that, the more the merrier. The more competition, the better things are for the consumer.

 

[The Lunch Legend]

We need a big two.

Steam

&

Deez Nuts

 

[Topher]

There's way more to PC than just Steam.

True. I think most folks look at Steam as the single most important platform on PC. And I can't think of any other company that represents PC gaming more than Valve.

Steam

&

Deez Nuts

Isn't that three?

 

[Generic]

Steam is the only good one.

 

[HRK69]

We asked Xbox to compete. It started offering cloud services

 

[The Lunch Legend]

Isn't that three?

I guess we really do need a big 3 after all..

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

Got the new Legion Go S Z1E running SteamOS

Nintendo can die now as well.

 

[near]

What's the point of this thread? It would've been more interesting if you titled it The Big D and posted a picture of your dick.

 

[Little Chicken]

What's the point of this thread? It would've been more interesting if you titled it The Big D and posted a picture of your dick.

Self-soothing because of Sony's industry-defining failures of late.

 

[RoboFu]

I thought you couldn't make threads anymore.. or was it that other guy

 

[bender]

True. I think most folks look at Steam as the single most important platform on PC. And I can't think of any other company that represents PC gaming more than Valve.

Someone has to teach human children how to gamble and none done it better than Valve.

 

[LakeOf9]

Sorry to bother but could you please define platform for me?

Because imo the platform is the place where you play, the PC. Steam is just a storefront and distributor, just like GOG. I dunno, it would be like calling PSN a platform, when the plaform imo would be whatever Sony console you are accessing PSN from.

I think platform and hardware used to be interchangeable, but the rise of digital ecosystems has changed the equation. A platform hosts your games, your play history, friends, achievements and activity, a centralized storefront for game purchases, standardization for input and abstraction, servers for online play, tools provided to developers to facilitate game development and distribution, curation, promotion, and distribution. Steam, I think, is a platform, and it is a platform that is most divorced from being attached to hardware. You can get it on PCs running Windows, Mac, Linux, plus Steam's own in-house and OEM devices. But it is a platform, IMO.

 

[Banjo64]

The three great pillars.

 

[Banjo64]

Self-soothing because of Sony's industry-defining failures of late.

Sony's first party is dog rubbish and I still re-bought a PS5 with Plus in order to play GTA 6, Nightreign etc.

They don't need to do anything and they are still a pillar because they are the de facto home console.

 

[Brakum]

One of those is significantelly bigger than the other two combined so i wouldnt group them together.

 

[Little Chicken]

Sony's first party is dog rubbish and I still re-bought a PS5 with Plus in order to play GTA 6, Nightreign etc.

They don't need to do anything and they are still a pillar because they are the de facto home console.

Well the market will always pander to the lowest common denominator.

 

[LakeOf9]

Well the market will always pander to the lowest common denominator.

Yeah that's why Microsoft made the Series S.

But as is always the case, they failed.

 

[TintoConCasera]

hosts your games, your play history, friends, achievements and activity, a centralized storefront for game purchases, standardization for input and abstraction, servers for online play, tools provided to developers to facilitate game development and distribution, curation, promotion, and distribution

Ok, you've convinced me! Never though of it this way.

 

[Brakum]

Steam needs more competition. I hope other companies start creating PC gaming storefronts, Apple perhaps.

Yeah sure. The company that has been making computers for like 40 years and has never cared one bit about games even working on their computers are gonna be the ones to compete with steam.

 

[Little Chicken]

Yeah that's why Microsoft made the Series S.

But as is always the case, they failed.

Microsoft have bought joy to millions of attractive, successful budget-conscious consumers. Bravo!

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

Microsoft have bought joy to millions of attractive, successful budget-conscious consumers. Bravo!

They've certainly brought joy to my refund history

 

[Badlucktroll]

you know who is missing who should still be there

 

[Deerock71]

I can play Sony's hits on Steam Deck. I'll be playing MCC on Switch 2 before Christmas. I see only two.

 

[adamsapple]

With Xbox on the way out

 

[Loomy]

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

Triple Trillion Dollar Company Gets Constantly Bullied by Internet Gaming Forum NeoGaf, and it is not fair!!!!

 

[Success]

The crazy thing is that OP is correct.

With Xbox being everywhere now, Steam is taking over the old Xbox slot.

 

[Unknown?]

Where's Ricky?

 

[simpatico]

I still don't see Nintendo as a competitor to Steam or Playstation. If Switch didn't exist, most of those customers would not have bought a PS5 or Steam Deck. Would probably just go without dedicated gaming hardware. Maybe an iPad gets bought or something. Switch doesn't replace Steam Deck whatsoever and vice versa.

 

[hououinkyouma00]

This is it. The core gaming industry has rallied around three platforms, each with more than 100 million active users, each selling billions of games, each giving third parties large, receptive audiences to sell to. There are differences in all of them of course - other than the exclusives unique to each platform, they each specialize in different things; Steam and PC gaming is open, flexible, and all about giving users and developers options. PlayStation is the go to, premier, default console option. If you want to play games but don't want to muck with PCs, PlayStation is the way to go. Nintendo is the go to, premier, default portable and family-friendly option, prioritizing local multiplayer, user friendliness, and toy style hardware gimmicks.

With Xbox on the way out, and Steam starting to proliferate the platform beyond just PCs thanks to Steam Deck, SteamOS, and rumoured upcoming Steam OEM consoles, as well as Switch 2 anticipated to set sales records, and absorb a lot of third party support Nintendo didn't get before, plus PlayStation's ongoing dominance, means these three platforms are it. The big three for the industry.

Xbox isn't dead until they announce plans to discontinue their console business.

There's way more to PC than just Steam.

Lol look at this guy

 

[Deerock71]

I still don't see Nintendo as a competitor to Steam or Playstation. If Switch didn't exist, most of those customers would not have bought a PS5 or Steam Deck. Would probably just go without dedicated gaming hardware. Maybe an iPad gets bought or something. Switch doesn't replace Steam Deck whatsoever and vice versa.

Honestly, Steam's a road apple in the console space.

 

[TintoConCasera]

Lol look at this guy

 

[Sebastian1295]

 

[Sooner]

You are still in denial AFTER they've already gone full third-party and have put all their games on PlayStation and Nintendo?

"Oh boy. Here we go" indeed.

 

[Mr Moose]

Microsoft have bought joy to millions of attractive, successful budget-conscious consumers. Bravo!

I can play Sony's hits on Steam Deck. I'll be playing MCC on Switch 2 before Christmas. I see only two.

MCC is on Steam, saved you the purchase of a Switch 2.