{"id":266340,"date":"2023-12-14T09:09:26","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T14:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=320870"},"modified":"2025-07-01T17:24:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T00:24:49","slug":"fortnite-on-the-steam-deck-tim-sweeney-says-no-although-there-is-a-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/fortnite-on-the-steam-deck-tim-sweeney-says-no-although-there-is-a-but\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortnite on the Steam Deck? Tim Sweeney says no, although there is a but."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Fortnite is one of the most popular games in the world and yet, it seems to be locked in its own ecosystem. Although it can be played on mobile devices, it is heavily restricted to appear on them<\/strong>. And while its home is on computers, it also seems to have many issues reaching outside of the Epic store itself. Although, no matter what the CEO of the company says<\/a>, perhaps all of this is not always the fault of others.<\/p>\n\n\n

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In an interview with The Verge<\/a>, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney was asked why Fortnite was not coming to the Steam Deck. Especially considering that they had even gone to court to get their game to appear on mobile devices without any interference from Google. Sweeney’s response has been concise, but not clear: “if we only had a few more programmers… I wish they had tens of millions of users, at which point it would make sense to support it”<\/strong>. A spurious argument that, moreover, is as easy to dismantle as almost everything Sweeney says in the interview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On one hand, it states that it is a human problem. They don’t have enough programmers. The reality is that, only during 2023, Epic has laid off 830 employees<\/a>. Around 16% of its workforce. If they hadn’t laid them off, it doesn’t seem like not having enough programmers could be a problem<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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