Credit to Naninho for the link, but there is some interesting stuff on The Witness dev blog. http://the-witness.net/news/2013/02/a-clarification-about-our-ps4-exclusivity/#more-2091
"Jonathan Blow
Posted February 22, 2013 at 2:19 pm | Permalink
The situations are just different. iOS users expect their devices to be low-spec machines compared to big computers, so if you deliver them a game that does not look as good as the PC version, that is totally fine.
360/PS3 users have a different expectation (or at least they did, prior to next-gen consoles being announced). If you deliver them something that does not look really good, it will be looked upon badly. But for a small team to make a 3D game look competitive on those platforms requires a lot more work than we have to spare.
Also: as I have commented here before, to be on iOS we just have to do one hard thing: port successfully to a low-spec machine. To be on the 360 or PS3, we have to do two hard things: port to the machine *and* pass through an arduous cert process that, depending on particulars, may also interfere with the game and its aesthetics in a way we don’t really want to do.
On the PS4, we’ve removed the low-spec pain, so we are once again down to one hard thing, approximately. (Well the port is not trivial in this case either, but we know when we do it that we will get a good-fidelity version of the game at the end, so we like it more.)"
"Jonathan Blow
Posted February 22, 2013 at 5:41 pm | Permalink
We just have to see. Once we have done iOS, a Wii U port would be somewhat easier… we just need to see if enough people own the console and are buying games on it at that time."
"Jonathan Blow
Posted February 22, 2013 at 5:45 pm | Permalink
I wrote everything I said on stage. I pre-submitted it to Sony so that they could get the show set up, but they expressed no desire to edit it.
There was a prompter, but I just glanced at it a few times, so I wasn’t really speaking from it. A short speech like that is not hard to remember.
About the cert and patching process, I only know as much as anyone else knows: Sony has made remarks that they want this to be better. In an interview from a couple of days ago, the official statement was made that they want cert/gatekeeping to be somewhere between PS3 and iOS. That is a pretty wide range, so who knows where it will end up. I would not expect them to go totally open/uncurated, though."
