What has been holding back the industry is 32bit Windows, DX9 and the fact that 80% of steam users are on low end machines(using either on-CPU gpu component or low end discrete gpu, 4GB ram or less, and a lot are still on single core CPU's)
In any light business, sure. But anything needing heavy computation, no, never. As long as the job is pure paper pushing portable devices are fine. But any economist, CAD work, game development, digital design work(Web, 3d modeling etc), music etc needs a workstation pc. All heavy reliant on RAM and CPU, with some also needing heavy hitting CAD GPUs.
I think a question one has to ask oneself, are you paying to play online and get free games with that sub, or are you paying for a bunch of games and get to play online for free with the sub?
When did games become 200GB in size? Cause that is how big BD gets. Hell, the only reason why games filled up an entire disc on PS3(i'm looking at you MGS4) was that it had 7.1 full HD surround sound. Texture compression has also come a long way in just the last few years. Bit2Map can take textures from using 1.3MB down to just a few KB.
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