[Keyframe]

On one hand it absolutely does allow for niches to be filled, but on another it's a dumpster full of trash with gold in-between. There's a danger of either fatigue or slump sales over time. Maybe another Nintendo Seal of Quality on the horizon will emerge.

[shadowgovt]

While Steam could do that, there's no incentive for them to. They can lay out $0 into such a project and let third parties sift the trash for them and do journalism on letting potential customers know what games are good. Win-win.

[EncomLab]

Hence the demise of the Greenlight program...

[izacus]

Why? Steam already does a very good job surfacing good games and front page of their store shows way less garbage than Nintendo Store on Switch.