bdbdbd on 18 November 2008
@Jo21: In practice there's two main reasons:
1. The amount of memory.
Consoles normally tend to be most heavily constrained due to the lack of RAM/VRAM.
2. Open platform.
You don't need to make a game for the "current" hardware, you can make your game for future hardware. If the game comes out and doesn't run on current hardware, it's only to take a couple of months before there's hardware available that can run the new game.
I recall from a bit over ten years back, that one game came out, that didn't run on the latest hardware. Of course, a little tweak during developement could have fixed the issue.
Ei Kiinasti.
Eikä Japanisti.
Vaan pannaan jalalla koreasti.
Nintendo games sell only on Nintendo system.
