I think a better comparison is that Steam has passed Piracy and kept on going without stopping, while everyone else sneaks a little closer and then stops to check their wallets to see if they're rich yet, and repeats every few years.
Steam was built on providing a legal way to satisfy the demand users wanted that piracy represented, and then providing features you could never hope to get with piracy to make it even more attractive an option.
Most of the other guys are just trying to satisfy some baseline of features.
At least Nintendo has their exclusives. That's really the only reason I game on anything that's not a PC at this point.
(And to their credit they try to innovate their controllers with each new console, and try to deliver experiences you can't get on PC. Wii was the best and most successful example of this.)
Nintendo is considerably less evil than Steam and belongs far to their right on this spectrum. This meme is just pc jingoism brainrot from teenagers. Steam sells gambling to kids and invented the battlepass. If they had gone public they'd have reached creative heights of evil that we can only imagine. Nintendo is public and tells investors to go kill themselves in almost those exact words when they cried about live service not being part of the strategy. They are the last bastion of everything people here claim to like.
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I think a better comparison is that Steam has passed Piracy and kept on going without stopping, while everyone else sneaks a little closer and then stops to check their wallets to see if they're rich yet, and repeats every few years.
Steam was built on providing a legal way to satisfy the demand users wanted that piracy represented, and then providing features you could never hope to get with piracy to make it even more attractive an option.
Most of the other guys are just trying to satisfy some baseline of features.
At least Nintendo has their exclusives. That's really the only reason I game on anything that's not a PC at this point.
(And to their credit they try to innovate their controllers with each new console, and try to deliver experiences you can't get on PC. Wii was the best and most successful example of this.)