Monday, November 29th 2021
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney Calls For Unified Digital Games Store
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney recently spoke at the Coalition for App Fairness conference in Seoul where he called for a unified digital store for game platforms. Sweeney stated that Epic Games had already begun working with publishers and service providers to create this vision of a unified store where customers could be confident that their purchases would work across all platforms. The system described by Sweeney would be a radical departure from existing ecosystems such as Xbox, PlayStation, Steam, Nintendo, and Epic where digital purchases are often limited to an individual companies platform.
This new system would allow games purchased from any ecosystem to be fully playable on all supported platforms without requiring multiple purchases. The success of this vision is entirely dependent on game studios signing up to the program which will likely be a hard sell given the expected fall in sales. While there are limited options currently exist for cross-buy games the movie industry has implemented a similar program with Movies Anywhere which boasts large studios such as Disney, Sony, Universal, and Warner Bros.
Source:
Bloomberg
This new system would allow games purchased from any ecosystem to be fully playable on all supported platforms without requiring multiple purchases. The success of this vision is entirely dependent on game studios signing up to the program which will likely be a hard sell given the expected fall in sales. While there are limited options currently exist for cross-buy games the movie industry has implemented a similar program with Movies Anywhere which boasts large studios such as Disney, Sony, Universal, and Warner Bros.
Tim SweeneyWhat the world really needs now is a single store that works with all platforms
119 Comments on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney Calls For Unified Digital Games Store
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I do wonder why only the first part of the quote is used in the news snippet.That... is not the simplest thing. Other storefronts also regularly get the required space wrong. Downloaded amount, space you need to install and installed size can be and are different things. Not that they should not fix that somehow but this is far from simplest.You are misreading the problem they are trying to address. It is not the competing storefronts as such but platform owners (and their inherent storefronts) that prevent a 3rd party store from operating freely enough on the platform.
I know this pun got old a couple of years ago, but c'mon.... They want to create a universal multi-platform super-store for games, while can't build a simple shopping cart for 3 years! :nutkick:
Given that they take a lower cut and the developers will get a percentage cut of second hand purchases.
Still has a ways to go but I think the influx of capital from retail investors to the crypto-gaming space this year will help it close the gap.
I am from the 90s where I created a c:/games folder with 100 games installed, games that were actually MINE with no one forcing me to install launchers.
This is why I started using piracy for 2 years now, as I knew about very fast and safe private FTPs with every game cracked.
If a single store is created, then I sell my console and stop using pirated games on PC. I will gladly buy them as I do with every GOG game (drm free) and Playstation titles.