>>12262If we make a comparison, i would say that
GOG is the most consumer-friendly and it fully respects personal property.
Steam is less consumer-friendly than GOG but it still has drm-free games without annoying nickel and dime crap. So you can have a good time with it, if you pick games wisely, usually games from indie developers. Plus the steam-deck hardware is relatively open and it lets you run it like a normal computer.
Nintendoh does not respect personal property at all, every game is infected with the digital repression mechanism. Their Snitch hard-ware is completely borked, you have to be a level 60 computer wizard to use it like a normal computer.
Steam does lower prices when games get older, nintendon't, it's their fiefdom and the gamer-peasants have to pay the tendo-tax.
I would say critical support for valve if they can dethrone the snitch with the steamdeck, eventually, hopefully. You gotta give Valve credit for supporting the free open source software stack. I know that it was rational business-sense to pick linux as the operating system, but most companies would have gone "not invented here" and instead cooked up yet another decrepit incompatible proprietary crap-ware.
Maybe GOG will eventually build hardware too, like a low-cost handheld based-on a budget SOC, but yeah that's probably gonna be a while. Maybe once AI-coding gets mature enough, that they can port their game library mostly automatically. I'm guessing that's at least a decade away.