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I tend to agree that the only compelling argument is endianness. I'm just curious to know if there're any reasons other than that.

well I'd push also for the first arguments as consoles may probably have different pipelines than what we think

Except Durango and Orbis have PC pipelines, NX is just a Tegra, and even WiiU was basically a Radeon 5830.

I guess you're right. I haven't touched consoles' inner mechanics yet so I can't tell.

Back in the day they were the epitome of bespoke hardware, shortly after the decline of arcades. These days, they're about just PCs

Speaking of arcade hardware, I find it interesting that it has followed the hardware market in terms of R&D dollars. (1/?)

In the 70's, 80's, and early 90's, arcade were the pinnacle of tech. In the mid-90's, once the PS1/N64 hit, arcade manuf'rs (2/?)

ended up licensing console HW. Think, like, a PS1 with a hard drive, or a ROM board. Then in 2005-ish, the industry seems to (3/?)