[periheli0n]

If Epic wins, then consoles are next, and the whole store business will be either in a race to the bottom, or there will be wild mergers with game companies buying hardware makers.

Fortnite was a 5bn/year game that made only 7% of its revenue on iOS, but much more on consoles. This is just a the beginning of a huge fight over a market that has grown incredibly huge, and Epic having realised that access to hardware is crucial to their further growth.

I mean, they could simply make their own, but perhaps that's more risky than suing Apple, Sony, MS for access to their platforms.

[headmelted]

I think what Tim Sweeney has noticed is what Steve Jobs realised (by his own admission) far too late.

The money is in the hardware but the value is in the software.

People will buy hardware thinking of that as their investment, without realising that the software is what extracts almost all of the revenue from them as a customer regardless.

Steve Jobs talking about this in 2007: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEeyaAUCyZs

[justapassenger]

> If Epic wins, then consoles are next, and the whole store business will be either in a race to the bottom

As a customer and developer - yes please.