I hope he and Linus torvalds both announce successors. Like a sort of "if my product fails you, this person follows my steps
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Honytawk@lemmy.zip 3 days ago👏 yet
What do you think will happen when Gaben our Lord dies?
You think their successor will be as merciful and follow Gabens vision? Or be blinded by the huge amount of money Steam makes?
notarobot@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
Newell has supposedly said that if ever there were to be a sea change where steam would have to shut down people’s access to games they’ve purchased, he would release code to turn off the ‘check’ for whether you’ve bought the game on steam, thus allowing you to play games without the ‘DRM’ of being online with steam. I wonder if he would do the same if he thought that would be the direction things were going in the event of his death.
Xenny@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Both. Steam is already the market leader in its industry. You just keep doing what you’re doing and you win.
invertedspear@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
When Miamoto died, Nintendo just had to stay the course. They were never dominant, but they were ubiquitous and everyone enjoyed their products. Now the new guys don’t even play games, and the switch 2 price point is ridiculous, and they never fixed the issue with the joy con sticks, and prices never drop like they used to. You can’t count on new leadership being capable of continuing success, even when all they have to do is keep things on the exact same course.
balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 3 days ago
Nintendo is gonna keep making the same 5 games with ever-improving graphics until they die. Doesn’t hurt that people are fine paying $80 every few years for the same game.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 3 days ago
The Switch 2 is selling faster than the Switch 1 during it’s launch period. So Nintendo’s new leadership is not negatively affecting the company. Also even under Yamauchi and Iwata Nintendo never fixed drifting analogue sticks, so that is new leadership continuing the course.
wavebeam@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Myamoto isn’t dead
invertedspear@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Dammit I was thinking of Iwata and didn’t check my tired thoughts and just dropped the most famous Nintendo name my brain came up with. Apologies.
cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigeru_Miyamoto 🤦
javiwhite@feddit.uk 3 days ago
Microsoft were already the dominant operating system in computing. Now they’re losing market share due to frequent bad decision making.
All they had to do was keep windows ticking over. But instead they looked to milk more revenue from their customer base in the form of advertising and telemetry data. That’s because shareholders demand ever increasing profits. Enshittification is always the result of a company going public… Never a question of if, only when; as soon as the passion has died in ownership (usually due to sale or change of management), the only drive becomes profit; and the user experience is stripped to accommodate. The same will be true one day for steam, unfortunately.
rapchee@lemmy.world 3 days ago
but they have shareholders, that demand, with the backing of the law, that the company produces as much profit as possible, otherwise they can sue them
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I keep seeing this notion that companies “must” maximize profit above all else “by law” repeated over and over again here and in other online spaces, and here’s where I’m finally getting off of my arse to draw the line in the sand.
That’s not actually true.
You can file a derivative suit against a company of which you are shareholder for a multitude of reasons, but just “they didn’t make us enough money” is unlikely to be a successful one.
lorty@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
Except you need to make even more money. You can’t do that by simply letting things continue as they are.