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Sadly the market share isn't big enough for SEGA to release Sonic games on other operating systems.
They were never promised something they got ♥♥♥♥♥♥ out of.
Umm, okay bro
What, like the Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft systems?
Edit: Or Total War: Warhammer or Football Manager 17 if you want a SEGA examples.
I've heard a Mac user have had equal success using a similar third-party Wine option available to them.
And yes, that's the Denuvo protected Sonic Mania running through Wine through PlayOnLinux on Ubuntu 17.04 running on a virtual machine through VMware Workstation Player running on Windows 10.
And I mentioned that because I think it's hilarious.
Thing is they have all big shares of a market. The Playstation 4 held 57% of the market in 2016 and the Xbox One 26% (which still led to a 9,1 billion dollar revenue) and the WiiU and Switch behind but apparently still big enough to warrant ports.
On the PC?
Look over the latest hardware survey of Steam:
Windows 96,30% (+0.18% compared to last month)
OSX 3,03% (-0.03%)
Linux 0.63% (-0.11%)
And overall on the Desktop Computer market, Linux never had a bigger share than 3% (and that was about 20 years ago).
Especially Linux has been constantly losing share here on Steam over the past 18 months (it was once at his highest with a 1.10% share)
Why should a company going to support something barely anybody uses? Companies aren't charities, they are just in it to generate as much money as possible, something that simply isn't possible on 2 OS that don't even have 4% of the audience on one sales plattform.
It has 3.37% at this very moment.
https://www.netmarketshare.com/report.aspx?qprid=11&qpaf=&qpcustom=Linux&qpcustomb=0
Stop trolling and pulling numbers out of your a** pls.
That said, the engine supports a - more or less - one click export. "Porting" costs are most likely close to zero.
It has been proven time and time again, that porting is profitable too. Be it natively like Shadow Tactics (randomly chosen because I liked the game)
https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/5gtx8o/im_johannes_i_run_mimimi_productions_developer_of/dav1wb0/
or via porting companies (Feral, Virtual Programming, Aspyr Media) which earn money just by linux and mac sales.
Also, why do your even bother? Do Linux/Mac sales hurt you? Are you afraid people other than you could have fun with the game? Are you paid by MS (judging from your post history, you are not but there really seem to be some..)?
Just stop trolling pls.
Oh WOW 3.37%!!!! That is soooooooooo much!
Btw. Netmarketshare is a very questionable source considering they only take data from around 40.000 websites, nobody knows which ones and calculate their data from that.
It also gives out some really weird data, like for the longest time they had IE8 as the leading, dominant web browser, when every other site rightfully said that Chrome dominates everything.
So don't put too much credibility in a questionable source like that.
Besides, the rise has probably something to do with Chromebooks. Are they important for gaming? Nope. We're on a gaming plattform though. Keep that in mind. So the Steam number is a lot more important than an overall number of desktop computers. Fact.
I'm not trolling, i'm just presenting facts. Yes, maybe the overall desktop share is slightly higher (but still pathetic) and the Steam Survery is a fact too. Hence why only 22% of all games on Steam even support Linux. Not even 1/4. Should tell you something.
Why i bother? Because Linux lovers are like vegans, easily the most annoying people on this planet who act like they are the kings and entitled to special treatment. The amount of people claiming that "Linux is the future of gaming" or "It's the best OS ever" or even some idiots who couldn't read the Steam stats and then say "Ubuntu has a 18% market share!!!!" is incredibly high. Laughably high. I just like to make fun of those idiots and point out that their ♥♥♥♥♥♥ OS has next to no market share on Steam and so they just should accept the fact that they don't get most good games
In a way they could hurt:
The resources (time, money, manpower) wasted on porting a game to a plattform nobody uses could and should be better used for improving the game, creating dlc or whatever. Especially smaller and indie companies can't just wildly throw around money for everything so it should be used for the game and not for a port maybe 50 people buy. Should be easily understandable, right?
Also, i really love the salty tears of the penguin lovers ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and crying that they get nothing to play. It's highly amusing to me