10 reasons Java is awesome

1.  Easy to learn.  90% of Java = C-pointers+classes.  You come from pretty much any programming background and hit the ground running with java.
2.  Best and most comprehensive standard libraries.  Wheels of all types and sizes are included in the standard library and they all have pristine documentation.  Not to mention the thousands of external libraries.  In java you never write wheels, you combine wheels to make machines.
3.  Super Fast.    Java is faster than all other garbage collected languages and about 1.5 times slower than C.
4.  Very readable code.   Without things like millions of operators, operator overloading, and first class functions it takes a lot of effort to obfuscate and write unreadable/unmaintainable java code.  Spend less time figuring out what existing code does and more time writing new code.
5-8.  Awesome tool chain.  Eclipse is as fully featured as it gets, from ridiculously good auto-completion and code prediction...to detection of errors before you even compile... to plug ins and version control integration. Did I mention its free?  The only competing tool chain that is even comparable(Visual Studio) costs an arm and a leg.
9.  Application versatility.  There is a JVM for all major platforms sans apple mobile products.  Porting from one platform to the other is easy.
10.  Ridiculously good garbage collection. Competing GCs don't even come close.

tl;dr  Real programmer use java.

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video games these days are horribly inefficient and bloated monsters.  Many absolutely could be written in java, but the companies that matter have far too much code written in c++ that would take a huge investment to replace and the benefit isn't that clear.  Manually managing memory isn't as a big a deal as people make it out to be when people are experienced with it.  You might save 10% development time. Also vector math is a pain in the ass java because of no operator overloading.  I don't work in the industry just follow it a bit and know people that do, the consensus seems to be that right now everything is c++ because it works and there's no real reason to change. 

A lot of studios hardly do any c++ coding anyway, they licsense the engine and a lot of other middle ware then code game play and logic in a scripting language.