It's not that open source matters to gaming. It's that gaming matters if open source is to really make it big on the desktop/laptop.
I like open source... enough that I run kubuntu on my laptop. But I know that, very few of my games will run on it, so I still have windows on my desktop. Virtual machines reduce performance, so, beyond the much older games, that reduced performance would mean the game is hard to play, or unplayable... both of which are less than fun.
Gamers tend to use newer hardware, some of which doesn't have get open source drivers for months... As well, WINE doesn't allow the newer games to run effortlessly, and when the OS is an obstacle between a gamer and his newly purchased game, he'll get a new OS.
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