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> Don't forget that millions of game devs successfully build and launch games for iOS.

With XCode, and tons of visual tools which abstract the OS and device to a great extent, making it almost invisible.

> The PS4 is literally FreeBSD.

Which is also shipped with nice SDKs for everything and anyhting related to PS4.



Same can be applied to GNU/Linux and most studios just don't care.


Yeah, instead of SDL + OpenGL/Vulkan, game studios use DirectX + NVIDIA Game Works, which provides a nice, cozy walled garden and vendor lock-in.

Win-Win for Microsoft and NVIDIA.

Again, it's just market powers and path of least resistance. It's not technical.


Of course it is not technical, there is no money to be made for most game studios.




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