| Loud_Hot_White_Box said: ^^ squill: that all makes sense, but mostly seems to go to support for Nextbox, not support abandoning PS3. And I'd contend that 360 had an easier time launching alone vs an aging, vastly weaker PS2, when everyone knew that a whole new gen was beginning, than Nextbox may have against a PS3 entering its prime. It would be completely different, in fact. And yeah, devs give up on Wii 1) not because of its 'difficult programming' I'll point out, 2) because it's so much weaker that ideas for PS3/360 games just probably won't work well on it, and most importantly 3) because the COMBINED install base of PS3/360(/PC) affords plenty of opportunity for sales. That third point is very different than devs passing up PS3 to develop for a newer HD console with a small install base. |
Not really, most people don't give a crap about graphnics and the Xbox 1s overall market performance wasn't enough to really shoot it out of the gate. Furthermore it had constant supply/production issues. The PS2 in its prime is something to be scared of, that was 2005. The PS3 in its prime is something that you can get away with laughing at, holding your sides and rolling on the floor until you puke.
The next generation for PC really gets underway with Directx 11 and Windows 7. Up until recently Direct X 10+ adoption was pretty small, but soon there will be enough systems in the wild to really justify the next level of development. There are many excellent PC games which simply would not run on the Xbox 360 and PS3, with a combined focus on development, developers like ID, Crytek, Epic have a cross platform userbase to really target for their engine development. The really big thing would probably be the MMOs like WoW, Warhammer online etc etc which simply cannot easily run on any console due to both performance and interface.
Tease.
