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Comment by pentaphobe

1 day ago

Let's add a post post scriptum :)

Just because your project might not be at Google's scale doesn't mean it is therefore also not complex [^1]

Example: I'd say plenty of games fit the author's definition of "complex systems". Even the well-engineered ones (and even some which could fit on a floppy disc)

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirming_the_consequent

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globalnode  1 day ago

Speaking of games, why hasn't google made a game. They could create a gaming division and well... make one. Amazon did. I wonder why they haven't.

  • fidotron  1 day ago

    Google has a really hard time grokking the games industry, to the point they can hire people from it and just almost totally ignore them. Their ideas on how Android game development should be done were utterly hilarious, and it's only because of a couple of their dev relations people going to ludicrous lengths that it is actually viable at all.

    Fundamentally, and ironically, Google likes to offload complexity on to everyone else in their ecosystems, and they got so used to people being willing to jump through hoops to do this for search ads/SEO they are very confused when faced with a more competitive environment.

    One reason Google can't make games is they can't conceive of a simple enough platform on which to design and develop one. It would be a far too adventurous constantly moving target of wildly different specifications, and they would insist you support all possible permutations of everything from the start. There are reasons people like targeting games consoles, as it lets you focus on the important bits first.

  • Arelius  1 day ago

    As someone who has firsthand experience:

    A. The same reason Amazon had/has such a hard time.

    B. Google lacking the same persistence of Amazon (Consider all the products that are killed)

    C. Google's hiring process. (They organizationlly do not know how to hire specialists)

    • Ripstad  1 day ago

      >B. Google lacking the same persistence of Amazon (Consider all the products that are killed)

      Yah, like the Stadia, Google's streaming gaming console thing. They even had a first party game development division for it. So exactly what OP was wondering about.