I don’t get how we end up where we are.
All machines and devices that we use are personal computers. CPUs, RAM, storage, Operating Systems, Updates.
All PCs, all doing the same. Your phone, your console, your laptop it doesn’t matter. All the same.
All running software that we mostly get online because that’s how we’ve been doing since online exists.
I don’t get why we’re spending so much time separating things and making them as if they were different. They are not, at all. People acting like Japanese games would be successful on Steam like, duh. I wanted that for the past 15 years if not more and it’s not slick or anything: we love their games and we don’t necessarily want to buy a new machine to play them.
Like, is that even an argument? Why wouldn’t we want people to play our games on whatever they want, now that we can do that pretty well? Why wouldn’t we want people to pay for computer games, those things that are so damn complex to make?
Instead we create silos inside silos inside silos and bargain our sweat to ludicrous levels.
I don’t get it.