So when a platform has 70% of ALL PC DOWNLOAD/SALES inside of it, selling outside of it(As long as ypu are not Nintendo that can maintain itself with its own software alone) is not viable. At least business-wise, if you don't want your company to go bankrupt. If it ian't viable, then there isn't really a choice. There is choice, and then there is viability.

And anyone that knows a fraction of how the industry works would laugh you out of the room if that was the example you gave of 'being enough to spur competition between platforms, and how devs can simply choose to sell directly to consumers if they so choose'.Īnd you forget to mention that exclusivity is something that devs choose to partake.That is also part of competing. How well is GOG faring? And the Windows Store? What you proposed to do, as an example of 'Steam is definely not a monopoly', is the same as proposing that a developer(EA, Capcom, Square, Ubisoft, etc) should create a new console if they are unhappy with how Nintendo, Sony or Microsoft handle their platforms. There is nothing stopping them from direct distribution except for one thing: Complete bankrupcy because of how improbable that task is lol

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