D-Joe why do you even bother coming into a thread that is 99% about discussing and speculating about rumours if you think all rumours are bullshit and not worth discussing?
And you are misunderstanding the development difficulty thing. It's actually implied that MS's console would be easier to develop for. A higher level API is much easier on devs, but it does make it harder to make full use of the hardware as a higher level API means more abstraction. Not that I actually believe that MS would lock out "to the metal" coding and force everything through a high level API, surely they learnt their lessen with the OG XBOX on that as they quickly abandoned that idea back then.
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