electronic games are the industry closest to military industry. In the Internet era, the game industry is an industry closer to the military industry than the steel industry. 3A masterpiece studio is a potential war workshop.
First of all, most 3A games require real-time, high-performance, and low-cost computing. Guess what industry also requires real-time, high-performance, and low-cost computing? A missile's identification surface array (CCD) is only 512*512, but it only takes a few seconds from launch to hit. What do you guess provides computing support? Was high-performance computing born from graphics cards?
Second, the pattern recognition of 3A games itself, and state machine are very complicated. Although we complain that the AI of 3A games is like a fool, in an era that does not rely on machine learning , 3A games can make quite good AI (such as StarCraft AI), which requires a large number of state machines, discrete mathematics, and algorithms. Do you guess these can be used in military algorithms?
3, 3A itself can provide a virtual environment for training soldiers to use, reducing actual consumption. For example, when training and disassembling torpedoes, this teaching aid is valuable in itself, and computer simulation can save huge amounts of actual consumption and play a role in improving combat effectiveness.
In short, the game industry is equivalent to reserve programmers for information wars. If when the war begins, C++ programmers can directly pull them into the data center in a certain place, and java programmers can only write a bunch of high-concurrent programs to cancel orders.
