why do some games only work on windows?
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The machine and the software need to speak the same language.
If the machine only understands French, an English program won’t work.
You can rewrite the program for a specific machine, like translating it to French. However, it isn’t always easy, you might have to rework whole parts because of major differences, for example, French has genders, adjectives are placed after nouns etc. That is what is happening when a game is released for PC, Ps4 and Xbox etc. The developers adapt the game to each machine. But this is huge work and therefore developers will only do it when they are confident they will get a return on the investment.
You can also do the translation on the fly, realtime, that’s what emulators do, when you play a nintendo game on your pc or when you play a PC game in Wine on Linux.
These hurdles are the one of the reasons game engines like Unity and Unreal engine are popular choices, because they reduce most of the work required to release a game on multiple platforms.
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