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walsufnir on 21 July 2013
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VGKing said:
walsufnir said:
VGKing said:
Well I'm sure most do. PS4 is the most dev-friendly this time around.


Who is saying this? There is a difference between http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superlative and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative while the second one is especially used considering the PS3.

Well the specs alone make it not only more powerful but more deve friendly. No complicated ESRAM to use. HIgh-bandidth 8GB GDDR5 RAM....etc...etc.

Then there's devs saying PS4's dev tools are further ahead than Xbox Ones. http://www.psu.com/forums/showthread.php/310584-PS4-dev-tools-are-more-mature-than-XBone-according-to-Avalanche

You can't use current-gen as a basis for how things will turn out the next. Sure 360 had the best dev tools and dev-friendly specs but next-gen it seems to be the complete opposite.


ESRAM is not complicated to use. It is "common" since PS2.

But I also heard that PS4-toolchain is a little bit more mature but that's a rather old info and people told me also that MS is ahead in terms of drivers.

But yes, in this special case we can conclude from current gen given that MS has a tradition of building compilers, linkers, assemblers, Visual Studio, DirectX... And now it's their "homeland", x86. And there is no complete opposite when people are using a comparative.