Small market share is literally what niche means here. According to various sources online, GOG currently has a 2-3% market share. It’s smaller than Epic, and smaller even than the Microsoft Store. That is niche, whichever way you slice it.
GOG is not a system meant specifically for people looking for some specific thing, it’s a general purpose market with a wide variety of offerings that happens to have a smaller user base.
Their main customers might be called a niche market in that they’re largely a specific group looking for DRM free games, but the platform isn’t limited to them.
Small market share is literally what niche means here. According to various sources online, GOG currently has a 2-3% market share. It’s smaller than Epic, and smaller even than the Microsoft Store. That is niche, whichever way you slice it.
More broadly it’s a term used for to denote something fitting a very specific purpose or suitable to a small subset of people, animals or things.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/simple/niche
GOG is not a system meant specifically for people looking for some specific thing, it’s a general purpose market with a wide variety of offerings that happens to have a smaller user base.
Their main customers might be called a niche market in that they’re largely a specific group looking for DRM free games, but the platform isn’t limited to them.
Anyhow, enough pedantics for one morning…