
When two parties sign a contract then they have to act in good faith. Preventing the other party from fulfilling their obligations to avoid a payout or invoke a penalty is not good faith. And that’s why the sea witch Ursula’s contract with the mermaid Ariel would not have held up in court.
Maybe the game would make more money during it’s life span if released later but that’s irrelevant when there’s a contract about how much money the game should make before a certain cut off date.
Okay so if Steam takes 30% and Itch takes 5% then the same game could be sold for approx $64 on Steam and $47 on Itch and the developer would take the same-ish amount home? But if they priced them the same they would make more money from Itch 🤑
And if you sell Steam keys separately then the user would still go to Steam to download and Steam would make sure that it goes to one person’s library and a bunch of other jazz.

Ray tracing. It makes good looking human skin. But if course it only matters for 3D games that aren’t cel shaded.
2023 NVIDIA DLSS 3.5: Enhancing Ray Tracing With AI; Coming This Fall To Alan Wake 2, Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, Portal with RTX & More | GeForce News | NVIDIA - https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/nvidia-dlss-3-5-ray-reconstruction/
Maybe because it’s fucking dumb? If it runs PS6 games then it is the PS6, like the Switch is a handheld.