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[–] dukemirage@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago

The memory shortage will also affect phones and other Android devices. But hardware crisis aside, the future will probably evolve some kind of x86 emulation since the PC platform is approaching its limits and the PC gaming community will not tolerate dropping support of the back catalogue.