Hey that’s a good idea, lemme just email gaben

Just switch, 3DS is discontinued.

You did this to yourself mate

Thought it’s probably fine after reading the title, but this shit isn’t fine. What the fuck.

These companies might want their platforms to be free from google’s control, but that’s only because they want to have that control for themselves.

Every android skin is an “OS” these days. I wonder how much “it’s own” it would be.

An app store for linux.

Why would it be illegal, or unethical? I don’t really see any reason.

EU is way too large of a market to “lock out.” Didn’t happen with Apple, for example.

For subscription hell, we’re deeper into it than is healthy, but I don’t expect it to take over because of this. Steam, which is the biggest, most profitable platform out there doesn’t even offer a subscription and shouldn’t be hurt by this. For competitors, trying to suddenly force everyone into a subscription would lose a lot of business.

Edit: Anyway, doing nothing about it is a guaranteed bad outcome.

It’s not supposed to be a finished law at this point. The main take from the initiative is that digital games have a massive issue with anti-consumer practices, and that consumers demand something to be done about it.

How would this exactly backfire in your view?

Most of HMD’s efforts, like that “repairable” phone are a joke. I’m not particularly impressed with this either, but it seems that the pogo pins provide standard USB, which could enable some fun hacks.

https://assets.ctfassets.net/wcfotm6rrl7u/3KBmYBnMpossUdxFxZOC7Z/6414fafda9add20684dba2f957627eda/HMD_Fusion_Development_Toolkit_-_V1_-_February_2024.pdf

Nice going. Maybe EU can beat some sense into digital “ownership”.

Guess I should give it a proper look, then.

It is actually useful?

In my experience it just looked like SEO farm that polluted my search results with irrelvant machine-generated content.

I think the name has been there longer than threads(.)net. But yeah, at this point it’s too easy to confuse if one doesn’t know about it already.

Time to start max payne

That’s a good jest

I’m guessing these are all just very recent.

You can play non streamed games on steamos now?

Non streamed? You mean just running the game on the device? You could run games on steamos since it first released in 2013.

other companies can pay a steep price to have it on their handhelds, I bet.

Probably not, they still need market share. More likely it would be just locked down, filled with ads, and generally unusable.