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Re:Google's ambitious push into gaming is floundering by pjmlp on Monday March 02, 2020 @05:00AM (#22463071)
Apparently they also heavily botched the developer experience, when reading across some of the sources on the dev community.

Think Android NDK, just worse. At least that is what I get from those comments.

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Re:Google's ambitious push into gaming is floundering by Mindwipe on Monday March 02, 2020 @06:09AM (#22463389)
Not giving Microsoft a few million dollars so the server backend was built on Windows instead of Linux was a catastrophic error.

It vastly increases the work required by devs for very little incentive.

If they launched and made a go of it? You could make a slow transition. But up front? Insane.

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Re:Google's ambitious push into gaming is floundering by QuesnayJr on Monday March 02, 2020 @08:39AM (#22464269)
What reason to Microsoft have to play ball, though? They would be enabling competition with the XBox line.
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Re:Google's ambitious push into gaming is floundering by nerdjon on Monday March 02, 2020 @10:23AM (#22465107)
Microsoft signed a deal with Sony to support their cloud initiatives for gaming, so clearly Microsoft does not see it as an issue.
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Re:Google's ambitious push into gaming is floundering by sangnoir on Monday March 02, 2020 @10:42AM (#22465285)
It's possible Microsoft doesn't have an issue dealing with the incumbent, but won't help a challenger; the Play Station has outsold the XBox for the past 2 generations.
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Re:Google's ambitious push into gaming is floundering by mlazos on Monday March 02, 2020 @11:16AM (#22465687)
The way I see it is the competition is happening anyway, why not make money from every major player in the market?
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