[akira2501]

> and if you have a bunch of third parties running bad software, consumers would lose faith in the platform altogether.

Famously the reason no one ever used Microsoft Windows.

[mschuster91]

> Famously the reason no one ever used Microsoft Windows.

Microsoft in its early days invested a shit ton of money and effort into backwards compatibility testing and fix development. Up until Windows 7 you could be reasonably sure that any piece of software from the Windows 95 32-bit days would still work without major issues - even 16-bit software would run under a 32-bit W7 host, only W7 x64 finally dropped support for that.

[markus_zhang]

I think they even run windows 3.1 games back then. It is very impressive. Actually I think some still do. But the ones using WinG do not, like Fury3.