Topic on User talk:Nicereddy

Hello,

I am writing in regards to the status of using the Fuze Tomahawk F1 as a platform, per your comment on the revert on "Half-Life 2" (Q193581). As I understand it, the Fuze doesn't use Google Play services, but rather uses a different digital distribution platform (Which may be unique to the system or shared with others? It's unclear to me). Information in the west is limited, but from what I understand the version of Half Life 2 for the Fuze is different from that of the Google Play store, and likely won't work on non-approved hardware without modification due to the overbearing DRM used by the system.

That said this lead me down a rabbit hole, and I noticed that the version of Half Life 2 on the Google Play store is exclusive to NVIDIA Shield Line Android devices. I understand why you wouldn't want to list every single android device a program supports under platform, but if a title is limited to a handful of systems, doesn't it make more sense to list those instead? Would there be an appropriate qualifier for Android as platform to indicate these restrictions? (Such as using Android as the platform in conjunction with a qualifier such as applies to part or uses?)

Thanks!

- mbrickn

Probably a good question to bring up in Wikidata talk:WikiProject Video games. I'm not aware of any good qualifiers for this, but it's also rare that something like this comes up.

There are specific games built for the new iPhone 14 Pro's "dynamic island", like https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hit-the-island/id1644376309, but I don't think it's necessarily a good idea to start listing individual iPhone models for platforms on things like that (we'd need to keep it up to date when the iPhone 15 and 16 come out if they also have the same kind of camera cutout, and it's too niche to really be maintainable).