[harha]

That only plays out if you offer anything to customers once the competitors are gone. Also: there’s still PlayStation, Xbox and even Apple Arcade doing perfectly fine in this space

[roody15]

Is Apple Arcade doing fine? In my small world I don’t know a single person who uses it.

[harha]

Looks like overall Apple subscriptions have solid growth. [0]

I use it after I got bored of Netflix and other programs, because it’s ad and in-app purchase free and loads quickly on all devices. The games are obviously not the best, but then again the PS4 games I have don’t really justify the long start up time and I don’t have enough spare hours for Civilization.

[0]: https://www.macrumors.com/2022/07/28/apple-860-million-paid-...

[avianlyric]

Still doing better than Stadia will be after shutting down, assuming this rumour pans out.

At least with Apple you know the service is gonna hang around for awhile, even if it doesn’t set the world alight.

[vineyardmike]

I have arcade through their Apple One subscription and uh I think sometimes my family tries to buy a game and it’s free so that’s nice?

But i don’t know anyone who intentionally uses it as a library. I assume that it’s just a nice way to redirect money to devs they like in a rare scheme to appease their game dev partners.