the only way to effectively tackle the issue (and yes, those numbers are ridiculous), is to completely change the approach to gaming.
Many developers agree now that the future of gaming will be with a new generation of ad hoc consoles that will work as terminals, and people will just connect to servers and play online the game they paid for via a fee or subscription to a service.
Thinking about it, gaming on PCs is a bit of an anomaly, one could even say a bad habit, that got pretty quickly out of hand and turned into a non homogeneous reality of different machines, pc spec etc... a true mess that favours hardware producers, but surely doesn't help developers or the gamers' pockets.
The best way to tackle the issue is again to completely rethinking the gaming structure, which would allow for better gaming experience, compatibility and ultimately R&D, and as faster internet connections are becoming widely available, cloud gaming is probably the incoming revolution.
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