You are telling some version of history that doesn’t exist.
Home computer scene was growing very fast in the 80s if you include Commodore and other companies.
MSX based computers were massive in Asia and the kids who bought them learned to code and became some of the best arcade and productivity software engineers. We would not have legends like Hideo Kojima without MSX.
Almost all the classic games were developed by indies developers coding in their bedrooms during this period in the 80s. Legends were made in the programming world.
In your reinvention of history the world had no computers at home until PCs in the 90s.
Actually home computers were a fast growing market until the mini recession around the 1990 period.
VR is a dud with consumers. Meta made all its money outside VR and the Reality Labs division is losing more and more money. Consumers are not interested in goggles and waving arms around in the air like a lunatic.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg keeps pumping money into the metaverse.
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