What I mean by fail Is it will Still be dead on the Mac. no user have anny good reason to buy on the store as it will always be more expensive. Almost zero developers will want to use apple Arcade compared to selling it on steam or GoG. the Mac store is simply extremly bad as it's outcompeted.
if we compare steam
- close to zero limits on what game you can make. porn? go for it. violence galore? yep. use any custom or standard APIs? absolutly
- it supports competing subscription services, such as Ea play or elder scrolls online
- modding is built in
- WIndows, Linux and Mac games are listed seamlessly granting you a 100% market coverage.
- you can sell in game items, keys aesthetics etc to other steam users
- Developers can contact you or sell their game Keys or DLC keys anywhere and still register them in steam keeping 100% of the revenue.
- regularly have Steam sales of 40-70% on high end games.
Now compare this to apple app store...
- hard guidlines to what you can sell.
- only allowed to use specific APIs, custom or priviliged APIs will reject your game.
- No compeating subscription service allowed suc has EA play like services.
- exist only on Mac
- No sales.
- you can only buy tings on the MAc app store. anywhere else wont be registered on the Mac store.
- No modding
Steam have 1
billion accounts in 2019 and over
120 million monthly active users in 2021.
on this the have made at least 4 billion in revenue. and apple made 10 billion... with
1 billion active iphone/ipad users.
Now that is 10x more users but only twice the revenue( probably even less as steam have no new numbers for 2020/2021)
And steam is likely many times more profitable as they don't have any real costs to deal with outside their once in a while game and limited hardware..
If a developer develops for iOS it make sence, but anything ment to work on the mac will not use apples ecosystem.
