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by dylan604 1873 days ago
>That's quite over-powered for a device whose main function is decoding video

Is it? Maybe. However, it's also able to run games, and that's being pushed with Apple's Arcade service. So, yes, it needs all of that CPU/GPU for games. You can connect an Xbox/Playstaion controller to it for game play.