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

[nanarchy]

Scisca said:

nanarchy said:

Steambox's were looking like the only really viable alternative. linux gaming is too fragmented with far too many issues, OS.X has too small a marketshare to be a primary target for devs and the other platforms don't have the power or support to currently challenge desktop gaming. really most devs are still targetting DX first, OpenGL just hasn't been able to keep up, only time will tell if this iteration will be different.

You really should get your eyes checked if you still can't see the support for Windows 7, 8 and 10. That's much, much better than what DX12 offers. I can't find a single reason to move from my Win 7. If they allow me to keep getting the best effects on this system and have all games 100% compatible, I won't switch in years.

You might need a pretty big reality check if you think most games will be vulkan based in the next few years . Even if it is completely successfull it will be long after win 7 is dead and buried that the majority of games will support vulkan. once out of support it is extremely unlikely they will be releasing vulkan updates for win 7 either.