>>106953472
I think the coming few years will finally bring what I like to call "hyperjeet overdrive", wherein a major infrastructure collapse occurs through Chinese hacking companies at multiple levels due to Indian incompetence. This will cause the US to seek outsourcing the entire tech stack to India at the behest of Indian CEOs in the US, ironically- they will use the argument that American tech workers aren't competent enough to run the US Internet and lobby the government to hand over the reins to Tata, HCL, etc.

>>713205850
>What happened to the days of wild, custom hardware architectures like the Saturn, Dreamcast, PS2 and PS3?

competency crisis. younger generations don't kno w how to program as well as the older ones and there's also a ton of DEI hires on board now.

with custom silicon you have a handful of devs that get really good at using the special features and it separates them from the rest of the group. most of these devs are commies now and there's a lot of women as well so they will always knock down the "tall poppy". utilizing Unreal and other popular game engines allows to put more work on the competent devs and make it look like the DEI hires are doing something, to management.

this is why it's so common for the talented devs to leave and start their own studios.