I think more people are going to be driven to PC gaming (and therefore Steam) in the coming years as consoles lose the physical media and pricing advantages they had over PC. I know I’m dropping consoles as my main platform after this gen. Might keep getting Nintendo for the exclusives if the price is decent and the games are good.
I don’t think consoles have had a pricing advantage for a looong time. It’s been several generations at least. Unless you mean specifically a pricing advantage on physical media, but that mostly went out the window when the disc on many games just became a glorified DRM dongle.
They have until recently. A PC equivalent to a PS5 would have been way more than $400 in 2020. And most discs do not require a download to work.
Ah, I was thinking game cost, not console cost specifically. So fair point.
Digitally, PC wins easily on game cost, but it evens out more when you add in physical media. Of course, a lot of games don’t have physical versions.
The Nintendo Switch was just taken offline in Mainland China, not that it was terribly popular anyway, because it only had around 10 games available for it.
The video game market in China has essentially been dominated by a company called Tencent for years, who are known for poor customer experiences and frustrating software. The Chinese were enshittifying online services years before the word “enshittify” was coined.
Tencent is unfortunately buying its way into the western market too
Doesn’t Tencent also have a stake in Reddit?
Yes they do and they have a stake in a lot of tech related things. I’d recommend a Wikipedia read on them at some point.
I honestly couldn’t say. But it would explain the rapid enshitifaction and shift in culture there.