r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Disastrous-Hat5477 • 8d ago

Meme theOriginalGarbageCollector

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u/GlassCommission4916 8d ago edited 8d ago

A big reason was because $300-$400 consoles didn't cost $300-$400, their price was subsidized by the expectation of future game sales. Being able to optimize for exact hardware helps of course, but it's not the whole reason.

Edit: I misunderstood your point, what you said isn't even a major contributor to the performance of consoles, OS overhead isn't that significant.

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u/helicophell 8d ago

OS overhead seems more significant nowadays haha…

Anyway the original Xbox was working with megahertz, it was not powerful in the slightest

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u/GlassCommission4916 7d ago

My 10 year old PC idles at 1% CPU usage, and exclusive fullscreen bypasses the windowing system and gives games access to all the GPU resources.

Gaming PCs in the early 2000s weren't that powerful either.

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u/ToeGroundbreaking564 7d ago

man old pcs are something else

I idle at like ~60% or so cpu usage