Cloud gaming is going to be pushed hard. You’ll pay more and own nothing.

It's kind of already happening, Microsoft are slowly letting Windows die. Gamers go to either consoles or Linux. Microsoft buys up studios so that the games become console exclusive, attempting to lock Linux users out.

If Windows dies, Linux gaming will kind of go down with it. Existing games will continue to work under Wine of course but I doubt developers will do the upkeep to keep their games working on a dead platform.

	▲	hbn 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> Microsoft are slowly letting Windows die Considering they just announced a laptop where the sole focus is running AI locally it definitely seems like they're not interested in letting Windows die. And anyway a lot of their money comes from enterprise where they rely on Windows to continue running some shitty old software that hasn't been updated in 30+ years. It's not going away anytime soon. > I doubt developers will do the upkeep to keep their games working on a dead platform. They don't need to, communities make mods to make the games continue to be playable. Dragon Age Origins needs a community-made patch to stop the game from crashing on modern systems. And now with AI you don't even need a particularly technical skillset to do fixes like this yourself.