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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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