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Games are the peak of this, since consoles lack anything resembling a filesystem, natural fits for that (like inventory management) tend to differ for every single game... and then they get ported back out to PCs of various flavors with zero adaptation for new peripherals. (Or old ones, as most of those consoles COULD in theory support a keyboard and mouse or touchpad input of some sort too.)


What do you mean by inventory management? Like each item in the characters inventory is a file? There are lots of reasons to not do that.




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