• MurrayL@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    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.

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      4 days ago

      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…