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Former Amazon Games boss explains why it couldn't compete with Valve's Steam: "Goliath lost"


A former boss of Amazon Games has detailed why the company couldn't compete with Valve's Steam platform for PC sales.

A former boss of Amazon Games has detailed why the company couldn't compete with Valve's Steam platform for PC sales. The third effort from Amazon was its Luna streaming service, which competed with Google's own ill-fated Stadia - that shut down in January 2023. He continued: "At Amazon, we assumed that size and visibility would be enough to attract customers, but we underestimated the power of existing user habits.

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