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Comment by kadoban

21 hours ago

Game consoles are basically the top tier of locked-down-home-appliances, because they're sold at a loss with the expectation of making it up later. It's thus very important that the games be difficult to pirate for as long as possible.

Basically nothing else is like that. That does show the top tier of what companies can do if they try hard enough, but I don't think AI will get you there. I expect you still need someone to care _deeply_ to get everything just right to make it as difficult as possible, otherwise there's just so much room for one small mistake.

Inkjet printers and coffee pods machines are other home oriented devices that are normally sold at a loss where official consumables are crazy expensive