[fidotron]

At this point Valve look more capable of running a platform business than Microsoft do.

Microsoft have spent the whole Nadella era in "oooo cloud" inspired wonder and actively screwed up everything else.

[pjmlp]

And yet where are the native games for the platform?

Note how game developers rather spend their working hours in Windows with all its issues, even if they happen to have Linux servers for running their MMOs.

[fidotron]

> And yet where are the native games for the platform?

My Steam library is full of old win32 games that run better on Linux than they do on Windows 11. There are some native games appearing because of the Steam Deck, but the fact is they aren't necessary.

Valve aren't simply better at running a platform business, they've thoroughly subverted Microsoft's old one and have done a better job at running that than Microsoft themselves.

Look at the absolute state of the XBox business: all native games, tens of billions spent on something, and yet it's just a trainwreck from top to bottom.