Unity is absolutely being squeezed between the two. I can't really see how it can compete with Godot at the low end; it's hard to compete with free, and most of the goodness in low end games is the gameplay logic, not graphics or animation. And Godot can only get better; look at how Blender ate the CGI tools market. This leaves Unity having to either compete with Unreal at the high end - a very high bar - or somehow finding a new business model. The switcheroo they tried to pull on their customer base can best be viewed in that light.

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jsheard an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Godot isn't quite free if you want to release on consoles since those platforms are only supported by commercial forks, but I'm sure going down that route is still a hell of a lot cheaper than licensing Unity.

	▲	tapoxi 2 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Yes the pricing for W4 consoles is below paying for Unity Pro. There's also a free, MIT licensed Switch exporter, but it's in the Nintendo developer forums because of the NDAs.

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kranke155 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Yep it seems to be end of the line for Unity tbh.

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64718283661 an hour ago | parent [-]

Can you list even a single widely popular Godot game? Meanwhile, like half of the steam top 50, 100, 200, etc is unity.

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jsheard an hour ago | parent | next [-]

It's a bit of a weird edge-case, but the very popular Battlefield 6 is partially a Godot game. It's an odd hybrid of a proprietary in-house engine with Godot grafted onto it, which serves as a public-facing SDK for players to build their own content. I know that's not exactly what you meant but it is an interesting application in a major AAA title.

https://gamefromscratch.com/battlefield-6-using-godot-game-e...

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whicks 25 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Brotato: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brotato

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SSLy an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Battlefield 6 of all things includes Godot as core of the Portal map-building. Casette Beasts is what Pokemon wishes it was. Upcoming Planetenverteidigungskanonenkommandant looks gorgeous from the previews.

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krige an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Cruelty Squad. Also the other assertion seems rather hyperbolic. Steam top50/100 is either unreal or proprietary engines...

	▲	64718283661 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Maybe a bit of an exaggeration. But I think at least 30%. Unreal is popular too. Unity seems to be more popular for indie/coop/single player/certain art styles. There seems to be many more unity games overall, but a lot of them are very small.

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danbolt an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I don’t know if I could list something that matches say Cuphead or Silksong, but I do think that Godot is currently on a Clayton Christiansen-style worse-is-better ascent right now.