It's funny to frame it as bravery. Maybe that's clickbait strategy. Regardless desktop Linux is great. Only a handful of kernel level anticheat games are a problem. No you don't need adobe suite for your YouTube, Instagram, Tiktok influencer aspirations. Even open source applications that don't stack up to Adobe or Avid or whatever exceed what's needed to succeed in social media. More than enough for what amounts to solo projects
I have a PS5 that I rarely turn on. Everything ends up on PC. PC handhelds better than a PS Portal. To phone streaming everything supports. Playing PC games on Android is a thing now. Switch handles party gaming. No replacing Mario party/kart/tennis/strikers/golf. Nintendo IP party games are OP
What I'm interested in are the insights the PS5 will give into PS4 architecture. PS5 is backwards compatible and seeing what the PS5 does to accommodate any problematic games in BC. PS4 emulation over 5 because 4 is well along. PS5 is deep in the no console exclusives era. Early PS4 still had semblance of third party exclusives and Japanese games skipping PC
I unplugged the PS5 Ethernet port just in case I ever want to do something in the future. I doubt it besides possibly future of running Linux on it. It'd make a great gaming PC someday as a gift. People always talk about exclusives as a reason for consoles. I play way more games on PC that aren't available on consoles. Too old and abandoned. Too indie so it may not show up for years if ever on consoles.
Hopefully the Xbox series X gets jail broken someday too. They'd be great values for gaming PCs
Darksiders bundle and Halo Master Chief Collection.
Sifu. Not that old but cheap enough
After 16 years of sales, my library is filled to the brim with almost everything that goes 75%+ off that I would want. It's like 3 games a year now that I don't already have finally hitting the impulse buy range for me. Outside of that, fanatical and humble bundles round out my let's buy a game id never otherwise buy and try
It's a moving target. Everything I care about video game stores now I did not care when it was new. Steam itself in 2003, need it to update to latest counter strike. By 2014 years later, I'm done managing updates for individual games by looking on websites online for downlads. I want a store client like Steam to handle that. Didn't care for the first half of Steams life. I was still buying physical PC games when I could up to 2014. That's why I said 2014
Didn't care about linux Steam because it sucked until Proton. Since Proton I care. Didn't care about big picture mode because steam machines bombed the first time and I didn't use remote play. Now I use remote play and regularly use big picture mode because I buy big phones with OLEDs and remote play is great now because of that. Phones are why I care about 21:9 support as much as I do now.
Didn't care about Steam Input because I was kb/m all day type of person. I play with gamepads more now. Steam Input is major. Indie games were less common in 2008 and a lot less complex than they are today. Easy to get the good ones because everyone talked about them. Now most good indie games have no reviews on open/metacritic. Steam reviews and curators point me to the majority of my purchased indie games. Also even the studio/publisher pages that Steam has now showing what they have released. That's the other way I find games. Steam has brand pages for a while now. I actually use those like here for koei tecmo
https://store.steampowered.com/developer/KOEITECMO
Or smaller game XD. Played Icey and ended up trying a couple games under them through the publisher Steam page
https://store.steampowered.com/developer/XD
Library organization. Did not care about the collections feature until this year. Same with the user submitted store page tags. The collections feature can create from those tags and I make custom collections too to organize my big library. I just recently learned you can drag and drop rather than right click add to collection.
Sounds simple but it sucks on pretty much every PC store platform software besides steam. Managing multiple drives. Moving game folders between drives and the store client handling it well
numerous other things that come in handy from time to time. Like user created guides. SteamOS is more featureful than the OS's on a PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series before even exiting out to the desktop mode. Remember Mixer on Xbox. Steam has broadcasts and has had it for a long time now and it's never been popular but they never killed it and now I occasionally use it to check out how a new game looks. MS would have killed broadcasts like they killed Mixer when it didn't become a mega hit. Steam keeps it's niche features ongoing and generally improves over time even if at a snails pace. MS and other companies, they just kill the feature
Latest thing that is just as much Valve as it is community. PC gaming on Android. Valve initiated funding for Fex emu and it's paying dividends now that you can run a lot of Steam games on Android now. Same with recent versions of Proton/Wine that now have ARM builds for them. Major boon to Android PC game emulation. Eventually going to be a major plus for Steam in user friendliness compared to the storefronts not putting resources towards easy x86 to ARM translation support
TV show isn't on any different trajectory than Fallout has been since Fallout 2. Ya it's still a big jump in goofiness from 2 to Bethesda 3. But fallout 4 to TV show, that's not huge leap into over reliance on 50s commercial aesthetic and goofiness and snark. I'd be more worried about elder scrolls 6. Skyrim didn't dump out weird lore like oblivion which also had less weird lore than morrowind. Still solid though. Post Fallout 4, 76, Starfield, Fallout TV - I can see the next elder scrolls being a big up in goofiness for entertainment over weird lore that's entertaining. Like lots of "until I took an arrow to the knee" attempts at meme-able characters
Worst physical hardware and software sales since 1995 so far. Switch 2 won't be its first holiday next year and potential price hikes from storage and ram next year
That's pretty much all the feedback indie devs that barely get any wishlists on their steam pre-release pages get on the gamedev subreddit.
A lot of, "I have no idea what the game is supposed to be from the trailer. Is their a narrative? Can't tell from the trailer. Not much going on in the screenshots. That name isn't very google-able. You barely have a description and there's no media in the description either to flash it up. Do you not have any tiktok/Instagram/YouTube presence? YouTubers/Steam curators/Twitch? Did you submit for the Steam Indie Game/Next Fest? Have you submitted to any indie publishers and received feedback? You may be better off with a publisher if you're not willing to do social media and help with trailers and screenshot selection and writing your Steam page."
Displayport needs to start showing up on TVs and eventually get standards for stuff like eARC and HDMI CEC
It's been moving fast. It barely moved like a decade ago
The worst rent seekers come for everything
There's practically no moat right now for VR operating systems. Meta had the closest because of their studios. Wide open again for Valve and SteamOS/Linux