John Carmack, Frostbite 2 tech director, Crytek, and Gearbox endorse PS4 spec

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disolitude said:

Carl2291 said:
Its just like they looked at the PS3, saw everything that developers hated about it... And kicked it right it the nuts.

PS4 is possibly the most dev-friendly platform that isnt PC. Can only be good news. Cant wait to see what they can do in 2-3 Years time.

I think Dreamcast will forever hold this title. I mean, the thing was built using Windows and every developer pretty much maxed it out on day 1... Soul Calibur, Sonic Adventure...etc.

Windows? Does that mean everyone was using whatever DirectX version was out at the time (5.2?). The trick with the consoles is to eliminate the overhead form these graphical APIs and them to write code that runs optimally on the given fixed hardware. To have that achieved "day 1" sounds implausible. Maybe the thing was powerful enough that it didn't need much of the above to still produce the best at the time?