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Quite a few platforms to support, editor tooling, store for game developers, and first party support from platform holders, before it can actually surpass Unity.

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Unity's bar is pretty low to surpass. The bar falls a lot when you realize it's essentially an ad company disguised as a game engine.

Apparently Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, Google, Apple, Meta think otherwise in their sponsorship regarding Unity on their platforms.

Right. I'm sure none of those companies would ever deal with ads, targeting or user data in way shape or form. It was solely due to Unity's incredible engine and had nothing to do with their user base and ad network.

All of these sponsorships started long before Unity's ad product was launched...

And Unity's ad network is in competition with several of these companies, most notably Apple and Google.

If people aren't using the engine to build games for them, they will soon start caring a lot less. It used to be the case that Unity was the default choice for an indie game. Nowadays, it's more like "I will use Unity because there is absolutely no other alternative I can bear", which is a fairly small percentage of the indie games starting development today.

Sure, if they are happy enough targeting PC like systems, for A games, maybe AA.

Not saying that Godot isn't going to get there, only that those that downplay Unity really don't get the spectrum of features it provides.

Google Docs versus Office.

What AAA games shipped on Unity again?

Plenty on the Switch for example.

The thing with AAA games is that they can afford to remove the Unity logo.

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