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DonFerrari said:

JEMC said:
The console market is a hard and tricky one. Money and brand name not always mean much and publishers are usually reluctant to support new platforms until the install base is large enough... and sometimes not even after that.

Whatever Google plans to do, they should take this as a marathon, and don't expect to win from the start just because they're Google.

First year or 2 they should really be open to paying full port cost of the game and some profit for the devs. As if they were the publisher. Then whatever sells is their. Until devs and pubs are confident enough they can release by themselves on a steady rhythm.

Agree.

The question, if those rumors are true, is that while those ports could be "easy" and kind of cheap nowadays with a console more powerful than any of the others, that will change next year when the PS5 and XboxWhatever come with better specs. Will Google's console have sold enough consoles by then to make it a worth investment for publishers? We'll see.