Between Asus, Lenovo, and now MSI, it feels like every major PC gaming brand is lining up to compete with Valve’s Steam Deck. MSI’s Instagram teaser for next week’s CES announcement doesn’t give too many hints about the specs or features of its competitor. But it does seem to confirm it’ll have plenty of fan grills and RGB.
Well they don’t make the games so they couldn’t really do that nor would game developers be very appreciative of that. But I see your point. There’s nothing stopping you buying all your games on steam then making a copy of them elsewhere to play with a steam emulator if it goes tits up
“We’re reducing our cut from 30% to 15% and introducing ads for players that don’t want to pay.”
Tada! Most devs would fall in line just like they don’t mind releasing on Steam instead of other platforms that take a smaller cut just to have access to a bigger player pool.
Well they don’t make the games so they couldn’t really do that nor would game developers be very appreciative of that. But I see your point. There’s nothing stopping you buying all your games on steam then making a copy of them elsewhere to play with a steam emulator if it goes tits up
“We’re reducing our cut from 30% to 15% and introducing ads for players that don’t want to pay.”
Tada! Most devs would fall in line just like they don’t mind releasing on Steam instead of other platforms that take a smaller cut just to have access to a bigger player pool.