Games have to optimize for performance - if your game doesn't run smoothly on typical market hardware, it's a market failure (generally). Web applications have

Games have to optimize for performance - if your game doesn't run smoothly on typical market hardware, it's a market failure (generally). Web applications have to optimize for flexibility of development. Performance is certainly important, but at a very different level (usually network and data retrieval) compared to games (massive SIMD operations).