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Re:Google is developing its own Android game console - Report by wavefunction on Friday June 28, 2013 @01:33AM (#5956437)
This is assuming you're talking about "twitch" gaming. There's a huge market out there for games that can be written as inefficiently as necessary, since the casual audience is just looking for a diversion from whatever they're doing IRL.

It seems like hard-core gamers and game developers forget that pretty frequently.

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Re:Google is developing its own Android game console - Report by objclxt on Friday June 28, 2013 @06:09AM (#5957135)
...this may be true, but there's also a huge market for games that run on iOS and Android. And since iOS doesn't support Java, but Android does support C/C++ through the NDK, it makes complete sense to go down that road.
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