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Re:Ending Support for macOS and Linux by pjmlp on Friday January 24, 2020 @03:51AM (#22136515)
Except that has happened multiple times across the industry's history, specially on the consoles, it is a know business factor to take into account.
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Re:Ending Support for macOS and Linux by Wowfunhappy on Friday January 24, 2020 @06:21AM (#22137164)
Console generations are a known quantity for both developers and consumers. A lot of people keep their old consoles around when they buy a new one.

You will never see Sony release a PS4 update that drops support for 2013-era PS4 games, at least not purposefully. If they did, people would be very mad.

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Re:Ending Support for macOS and Linux by pjmlp on Friday January 24, 2020 @06:57AM (#22137318)
Game consoles come and go, e.g. Saturn, Jaguar.

I did saw Sony drop the almost unused GL ES support on the PS 2.

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Re:Ending Support for macOS and Linux by Jasper_ on Friday January 24, 2020 @11:51AM (#22139977)
Sure, but you're missing that it's worth the effort to maintain. Console platform sales are extremely healthy. Mac sales have never really been enough to support initial porting work, let alone continued investment.
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