Valve does not have a monopoly by any definition of the word, especially the legal definition. They don’t have a majority of the business because they buy out the competition or use their position to drop prices to a level that others can’t compete with. They have a majority of the market because they provide a better service than the competition and have been doing it long enough to have developed a cultural gravity in the same way that Xbox, PlayStation, and Facebook and Twitter have.
Er, why would you expect the software on this to be any more restricted than the Deck’s? Have you seen some information to that effect?
No, I just don’t trust Valve. They poached the better Cassali off Doomworld, and they’ve monopolized gaming without physical media.
TBH, if Tim, Romero, or Carmack relaunched the Big Blue Disk, I would get in, in a heartbeat.
Valve does not have a monopoly by any definition of the word, especially the legal definition. They don’t have a majority of the business because they buy out the competition or use their position to drop prices to a level that others can’t compete with. They have a majority of the market because they provide a better service than the competition and have been doing it long enough to have developed a cultural gravity in the same way that Xbox, PlayStation, and Facebook and Twitter have.