That walled garden has a huge welcome mat and door.
Other stores can literally add an icon in steam and add their purchased games to the steam interface (like emudeck does)
And there is no attempt by steam to block you from the desktop to install other things, or even other stores (like ps5, switch or Xbox).
Finally, consoles are likely more popular these days. One of the prerequisites of a monopoly would be that you’ve got a majority of the share overall and can dictate the market… Steam can’t really
That walled garden has a huge welcome mat and door.
Other stores can literally add an icon in steam and add their purchased games to the steam interface (like emudeck does)
And there is no attempt by steam to block you from the desktop to install other things, or even other stores (like ps5, switch or Xbox).
Finally, consoles are likely more popular these days. One of the prerequisites of a monopoly would be that you’ve got a majority of the share overall and can dictate the market… Steam can’t really