I heard you like summaries...

... And you're completely ignoring the fact that most games distributed that way could also run the game while streaming most the data live from the disks themselves, so copying the whole thing to the harddrive first typically wasn't part of the time cost equation.

Wait, you think a 96 GB download over a DSL line is faster than a 30 minute round-trip to BestBuy? Do the math again.

Yea, too bad we never invented the technology for distributing a single game spread across a set of multiple disks.

I thought it was fiction.

Yea but it was completely unrecognizable in that previous iteration. Nobody was clamoring to run that shit.

People have been begging to install SteamOS on their own hardware basically since Steam Decks have been on sale.

Your wish has been granted:

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(Link copy+pasted from here.)

well once they crossed 2 billion the signed integer representation made losses into profits

they don't have to make a profit on the investment. The investment is defensive. The goal is not to be outside the moat.

instead of explaining to my boss why he caught me spinning on my chair and stacking office supplies into Jenga towers as "I'm waiting for the compiler to finish" I can now tell him I'm waiting for claude to get back to me.

I was looking forward to tokenising the Swiss citizen. There would be fewer of them than bitcoins and not growing in populations, so by the same logic bitcoinETF use they would appreciate. And they are even backed by gold. Dang.. I'd have made a fortune.

Maybe they'll fix the Cirrus Logic driver next. :-p

Spoiler alert! That's gonna turn out to also be Google.

It literally could never sustain 3 companies. Xbox would have been shut down long ago if Microsoft hadn't had other revenue sources to divert. Possibly the only reason Sony managed to bump Sega off the stack was because they also had plenty of other revenue streams.