Suyu and Sudachi both ended up discontinuing developmemt and haven’t been updated in months

I don’t think Nintendo lawyers read this. You can just tell the truth and not blatantly lie.

In the same stroke though the onus to supply backing to any given position or assertion is on the one claiming facts.

Valve supporting gaming on Linux is common knowledge here. For very niche knowledge or hard to google terms, I’d agree but there’s a limit. One cannot expect to cite sources for every single bit of common knowledge.

This one is easily found out through a simple search and all but burden of proof isn’t on the one asking for proof

The amount of work required to ask for a source is similar to googling it directly, maybe asking is even more work because usually selecting the claim and then right-click --> “Search web for XYZ” works just fine.

Rule 2: Only tech related content.

it’s not my turn to Google things

It always it. That’s basic media savviness. Asking for things that take 5 secs to google is rude.

I thought Japan was all about Face. I guess Nintendo is the exception?

face, farce.

Well I asked for a source

I’m not AwesomeLowlander but you asked for something that can be googled in literally 5 to 10 seconds:

My Steam Deck has a 512GiB SD card full of legally backed up games

FTFY 😁

This isn’t a good argument, right?

The topic is Nintendo who make a handheld console and unless CD Project make a GOGBoy with a bespoke SteamOS-like “console OS”, yet another storefront for Windows PCs is hardly an actual alternative.

I also though of them because they recently improved their subscriber agreement (apparently not for selfless reasons but still an improvement esp. in the light of what Nintendo is currently doing).

I’d say questions regarding the leanings of specific instances are legitimate and those have been answered but questions regarding what constitutes terrorism and the motivations of fighters in armed conflicts are out of scope for this community. This is just a community about the Fediverse on Lemmy World, we don’t arbitrate moderation disagreements here.

Steam takes a lot of money for their service, which is a problem.

They take the same amount of money as other console makers and the store cut is completely unrelated to what Nintendo’s lawyers do which is the actual topic here.

We won’t have much choices left it seems

https://www.steamdeck.com/ is a good one.

My best guess would be that they’re trying to get ahead of the recompiler scene before it catches a bigger foothold.

If AI-generating images from copyrighted training material is legal, then generating source code from copyrighted binary code is as well.

That’s how you get rid of the good people who can easily get a job somewhere else.

They’re all delusional that they’ll be the exception.

“Games for Windows Live”

No, definitely not. When games don’t integrate SteamWorks features such as friends lists (or were written by people who accounted for the features to just not be available instead of outright failing), they don’t need Steam.

When the games use GPLed engines, Steam integration may not be legally possible anyway.

Off the top of my head I can immediately name Krita, the painting app by KDE whose Steam release has no Steam integration and runs just fine without.

The game doesn’t require steam after that and usually this means the game is available elsewhere

Means you can also zip the folder and archive it for later.

Steam being proprietary DRM, and games being closed-source.

Better not tell anyone about DRM-free open source games on Steam then. Wouldn’t wanna burst anyone’s bubble.

Comment OP appears to have drank the Epic Games Kool-aid.

The world’s biggest video game, Fortnite, is only available on Epic Games Store for most platforms. Epic’s market share is gigantic, other video game developers just don’t benefit of it because Epic promotes their own stuff first and foremost. If Epic had a storefront monopoly, it would be classified as anti-competitive behaviour.

Last I heard you could buy games from GOG or Epic and install them on a Steam deck produced and subsidized by Valve.

Or get them on PlayStation, Switch, or Xbox (Earth Walker claimed Steam has a monopoly on video game distribution in general).