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Re:Google Stadia shuts down internal studios, changing busin... by pjmlp on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @01:38AM (#25997992)
And not forcing studios to rewrite their games from scratch to a snowflake platform.
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Re:Google Stadia shuts down internal studios, changing busin... by depressedpanda on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @02:02AM (#25998094)
Porting a game to Linux and Vulkan does not require rewriting it from scratch.
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Re:Google Stadia shuts down internal studios, changing busin... by pjmlp on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @02:12AM (#25998147)
It does because 99% of the game studios don't care about Linux, nor are that much into Vulkan, unless they are targeting Android or Switch.
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Re:Google Stadia shuts down internal studios, changing busin... by account42 on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @06:57AM (#25999932)
The graphics backend is really not such a big cost for most games, especially with existing cross-platform engines. Also the grahics APIs are really not that different as they all model the same GPUs. DirectX vs. OpenGL had some annoying things but most of them are only a problem when you have to translate and can't modify the calling code at all. DirectX 12 vs. Vulkan is even less of a difference.
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Re:Google Stadia shuts down internal studios, changing busin... by pjmlp on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @07:08AM (#26000018)
How many Android and Switch games get published on GNU/Linux? Yep, it boils down to it.
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Re:Google Stadia shuts down internal studios, changing busin... by depressedpanda on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @10:11AM (#26001818)
Let's cool it with the hyperbole, okay?

There are many reasons Android and Switch games don't get ported to Linux; having to rewrite the game from scratch is not one of them.

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Re:Google Stadia shuts down internal studios, changing busin... by pjmlp on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @11:51AM (#26003297)
Which proves the point that even when games happen to be natively written against a Linux userland, with native support for Vulkan, it isn't economically viable to sell them on GNU/Linux.
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Re:Google Stadia shuts down internal studios, changing busin... by throwaways885 on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @06:07AM (#25999591)
What's the alternative? Run Stadia on Windows?
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Re:Google Stadia shuts down internal studios, changing busin... by pjmlp on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @07:09AM (#26000023)
That is exactly what Microsoft is doing.
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