Comment by nemothekid

3 years ago

>No gamer uses that OS. If you think it's hard on linux, it's much harder on osx.

You are conflating "gamer" with "game developer". Don't forget that millions of game devs successfully build and launch games for iOS.

>consoles are a complete separate world.

The PS4 is literally FreeBSD.

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bayindirh  3 years ago

> Don't forget that millions of game devs successfully build and launch games for iOS.

With XCode, and tons of visual tools which abstract the OS and device to a great extent, making it almost invisible.

> The PS4 is literally FreeBSD.

Which is also shipped with nice SDKs for everything and anyhting related to PS4.

  • pjmlp  3 years ago

    Same can be applied to GNU/Linux and most studios just don't care.

    • bayindirh  3 years ago

      Yeah, instead of SDL + OpenGL/Vulkan, game studios use DirectX + NVIDIA Game Works, which provides a nice, cozy walled garden and vendor lock-in.

      Win-Win for Microsoft and NVIDIA.

      Again, it's just market powers and path of least resistance. It's not technical.

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LtWorf  3 years ago

You want me to believe on ios it never happens that apple breaks support for older software Like they do all the time on computers?

  • pjmlp  3 years ago

    It happens, but there is an economic advantage in putting up with such breakages, while on GNU/Linux systems that money bag isn't there to keep game studios interested other than testing waters and running away afterwards.