Tim Sweeney on the future of games, AI, and whether Valve will ever join forces with Epic: 'It's now clear that nobody's going to end up with an absolute monopoly'

Tim Sweeney, the combative CEO who spent years battling Apple and Google over app store dominance, has quietly conceded what his legal battles could not achieve: the gaming industry will never produce a single winner. In a striking reversal from his previous crusade against monopolistic control, Sweeney now argues that fragmentation across platforms and companies—the very market condition he once fought against—may actually be gaming's salvation in the age of AI. The admission raises uncomfortable questions about whether Epic's costly legal wars were always unwinnable, or whether the company has simply pivoted its strategy after realizing victory was impossible.

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