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    Ubisoft Games on Chromebook max profits and max salary increase

    Why don't Ubisoft capitalise on the FPS gaming scene vacuum on chromebook OS - there are high end Google Pixel laptops now, to include chrome OS as a platform for your FPS e.g. shooting video games? There are security restrictions in Chrome OS but users can download games from Play store, but the gaming graphics and stories are mostly for young teens or children. Thus present a gap to sell e.g. Far Cry 6 single player shooting game in Chromebook with immersive premium graphics where user can download via the Google Play store. Please feedback to management.
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    SofaJockey's Avatar Senior Member
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    Perhaps because developing for another OS on a weakly powered platform is more effort than it's worth?

    Developing for the Switch would be more profitable (and I don't see that happening either).

    Won't streaming (Stadia/xCloud) potentially work on Chromebook? (Though the lag may be awful)
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    Very nice.

    But Ubi aren't going to be developing platform support for your souped-up Chromebook, I suspect.
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    Chromebooks don't even have a real graphics card, they use onboard Intel Graphics which is sub par for gaming. Having 256G harddrive is better than it was, but when you add an 80GB game or two and poof that space is gone. I suspect that cooling wouldn't do well for heavy gaming either, as it is a slim model and thus would likely thermal throttle....

    So why exactly should a company design a game for a new operating system, that will be run on hardware that doesn't have min spec for graphics card, barely has enough internal memory, only a poor 8gigs of RAM(DDR3 at that, not even DDR4), a 13 inch screen, and a mediocre CPU for gaming that will probably thermal throttle??? If you want to game on PC, buy a real gaming PC, laptop or tower based, with best results from tower based PC. Gaming on Chromebooks are for solitaire and other minor mobile style games...Chromebooks were never intended to game on, they are for watching videos, doing school work, surfing the web, checking your email, and generally doing light duty mobile stuff on....not gaming.
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    Of course streaming may become the solution.

    I've recently been able to play some games (after a fashion) on the beta of xCloud on my Mac.
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