Scoobes said:
Lol, you talk about cross-buy as if Steam doesn't even do that already. The whole point of SteamOS is that games you buy on PC or Mac versions of Steam are already available (assuming hardware support). Even the Playstation version of Portal 2 was effectively cross-buy. Nearly 1000 titles are currently available for SteamOS before its even reached a full commercial release and includes some big PC franchises like Civ Beyond Earth, Total War, Metro, Football Manager and all Valve games. You say SteamOS will likely never be popular but people were saying that about Steam as well. I see it experiencing slow and gradual growth, which is actually all it needs. You keep your library regardless of hardware. It's the same idea as Android Play Store/iOS app store and in the long-term it works. |
I honestly don't see SteamOS becoming popular either. People want windows, people who are into PC gaming like to do other thigns with their PC other then gaming and most of the time they want to do that in windows where it's easier. For instance using emulators. Your right people might have said the same about Steam but now were talking about switching people out of windows and no one has had success doing that except for maybe Mac which I wouldn't call success but they've come the closest.
Plus honestly I just see no benefit from it. Why would I leave my windows enviorment when I can do everything SteamOS does plus more. I enable big picture mode on my gaming PC and it's great and I leave it like that until I need to do something in windows and I exit.