Post #2303380
2026-05-01 20:55 UTC
Both Sony and Nintendo have been consistently posting record revenue numbers in the past few years. Neither are that far off Valve.
Regardless, this whole Steam circlejerk reminds me of the early days of Android, when people still believed that Google wasn’t “evil”. Let’s hope I’m in the wrong here.
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@megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-05-02 10:18
The difference was that people pretended like Google ever had an option to “not be evil”. At the end of the day, they were a publicly traded company, and thus, line must go up, or else the collective hive mind of the public market would vote the leadership out and replace them. Steam is private, thus, the current leaderships can ignore the demands of the public market hive mind. Private companies can be evil, but it depends on who owns them. They’re not guaranteed.
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@bitjunkie@lemmy.world 2026-05-01 21:35
I didn’t realize we were still in the early days of a platform that launched in 2003.