IGN: Devs Help Shape Next PlayStation

[oldschoolfool]

Gnizmo said:

Solid_Snake4RD said:

how is it irrelevant????????????????????????

 

and how the hell did they fuck up badly?????????????????????????????

Good implementation does not excuse piss poor specifications. The games would be better, and more plentiful with a properly designed system. You could get games at Uncharted 2 et al level of visuals and polish much earlier in the generation. Look at how well effective Nintendo is at getting top level games out insanely early in the consoles development cycle.

And they fucked up because anyone in their first year of engineering school should know better than to create a device with no set purpose. To make that mistake is, quite frankly, inexcusable from a hardware design perspective. Someone can always succeed despite handicaps, but those should never have been there. When you realize their intention was never to make money on the hardware, but the software side the whole situation just becomes comical. Don't worry about how easy it is to develop software for a device meant to make the majority of its money off of software. Who though that was a good idea?

This strategy seemed to work for the ps2. The games get better for the system over time. That's just the way it is.