[lambdaone]

Unity is absolutely being squeezed between the two. I can't really see how it can compete with Godot at the low end; it's hard to compete with free, and most of the goodness in low end games is the gameplay logic, not graphics or animation. And Godot can only get better; look at how Blender ate the CGI tools market. This leaves Unity having to either compete with Unreal at the high end - a very high bar - or somehow finding a new business model. The switcheroo they tried to pull on their customer base can best be viewed in that light.

[jsheard]

Godot isn't quite free if you want to release on consoles since those platforms are only supported by commercial forks, but I'm sure going down that route is still a hell of a lot cheaper than licensing Unity.

[tapoxi]

Yes the pricing for W4 consoles is below paying for Unity Pro.

There's also a free, MIT licensed Switch exporter, but it's in the Nintendo developer forums because of the NDAs.

[ronsor]

You probably violated a Nintendo NDA by even mentioning that the exporter exists on the forums.

[pjmlp]

A much better C# experience across all devices where people expect to buy games.

[kranke155]

Yep it seems to be end of the line for Unity tbh.

[64718283661]

Can you list even a single widely popular Godot game? Meanwhile, like half of the steam top 50, 100, 200, etc is unity.

[jsheard]

It's a bit of a weird edge-case, but the very popular Battlefield 6 is partially a Godot game. It's an odd hybrid of a proprietary in-house engine with Godot grafted onto it, which serves as a public-facing SDK for players to build their own content. I know that's not exactly what you meant but it is an interesting application in a major AAA title.

https://gamefromscratch.com/battlefield-6-using-godot-game-e...

[tapoxi]

You can actually pull that from SteamDB

https://steamdb.info/tech/Engine/Godot/?sort=followers_desc

Battlefield 6 also uses Godot for its modding tools

[SSLy]

Battlefield 6 of all things includes Godot as core of the Portal map-building. Casette Beasts is what Pokemon wishes it was. Upcoming Planetenverteidigungskanonenkommandant looks gorgeous from the previews.

[esyir]

I don't really think Nintendo is particularly concerned about Casette Beasts. And BF6 using it for their map builder is IMO a bit of a stretch.

Planetenverteidigungskanonenkommandant looks neat though.

[danbolt]

I don’t know if I could list something that matches say Cuphead or Silksong, but I do think that Godot is currently on a Clayton Christiansen-style worse-is-better ascent right now.

[whicks]

Brotato: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brotato

[krige]

Cruelty Squad. Also the other assertion seems rather hyperbolic. Steam top50/100 is either unreal or proprietary engines...

[64718283661]

Maybe a bit of an exaggeration. But I think at least 30%. Unreal is popular too. Unity seems to be more popular for indie/coop/single player/certain art styles. There seems to be many more unity games overall, but a lot of them are very small.

[kranke155]

Not now, but ask me that question in 5 years.