Valve’s Dan Ginsburg: “Not much reason to ever create a DX12 back end for your game”, Praises Vulkan

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binary solo said:
Well since PS4 isn't running a Win10 variant it devs are going to have to use something other than DX12 to get their games onto the biggest selling console of the generation. And if Vulkan is the best alternative, which no one seems to be arguing, it seems like it doesn't matter whether DX12 is best or not, devs are going to have to use Vulkan regardless if they go multiplat. Given Vulkan will also work with Win10 and with Win7/8 it seems like a no brainer for devs to prefer Vulkan because that gives them the maximum number of platforms on which they can release games.

If Vulkan can deliver legacy and new PC+PS4 (and Linux for good measure) an a fairly dev friendly way then even if DX12 is a bit superior the force of numbers in favour of Vulkan could push DX12 to the margins. MS might quickly decide to update DX12 to work with Win7/8. Shutting out those older OS's might prove to be a mistake. Probably would have worked if Xb one didn't have just half (almost) of PS4's install base. If Win 10 and Xb one were major players then MS could have been pretty forceful with DX12, but they're not really in that position.

So now PS4 is Win 7's the best friend? Yet another reason to be happy it dominates Xbone :)