• remotelove@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    The logic with that is that kids grew up using console controllers. The learning curve was reduced as they didn’t need to learn “military grade” controls.

    There are instances where PlayStations were used as clustered “super computers” too. That was an interesting time…

    The real gain in this case is the development of their own silicon. Kids want new games, games cost money and companies use that money to develop better chips to run the newest games. Once that cycle repeats a few hundred times, you now have an infrastructure to build military ICs as a side gig.