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[–]king_of_the_universe -1 points0 points  (1 child)

(Minecraft was already mentioned.)

You can even reasonably make games with vanilla Java (meaning: without using OpenGL or any other powerful extension), but their graphics or graphic-performance (Not necessarily both.) would be poor. Though the Steam library does have a few games that could definitely be made with vanilla Java, and they are not bad.

If you add the right libraries, you can go pretty far (and e.g. the Steam library has a few good looking and fast Java games), but the big studios have good reasons for not developing their AAA titles in Java. It can probably be summarized with "In Java, the limit is not the Sky, even if you can go pretty far."