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| Madword said: I thought it was quite well known already that the PS4 development environment is nothing like the PS3, and has been stated as being better than the XboxOne development environment. To me it seems that Cerny got in early, gathered all the intel on what was awful about the PS3 (which is pretty much detailed on the internet already)... and fixed it. While Ms seemed to have left it quite late, made the hardware more complicated (maybe because they didnt want to risk GDDR5 memory issues) and have a worse development environment. I don't think there is anything to argue about here. Can MS improve their systems, yep... can Sony continue to improve theirs... yep. MS might have a bit more wiggle room to improve theirs if its really as bad as people say, but ultimately that gap is still going to be small in terms of performance catch up. The question will be what types of performance differences we will see. Who knows.. Sony had a worse console to develop on with the PS3, but ultimately developed and published a better and wider range of exclusives, while MS started off strong and dropped then console. Xbox360 was no doubt the better console to develop for - for 3rd parties, but ultimately MS dropped it in the last few years and doesnt even have a good set of launch titles to show for dropping it. If they are equal in performance, I would still say Sony will do a better job of releasing a wider diverse range of games on the platform. While Sony's 3rd party studios are larger and seemingly better placed to release the better looking/running games on the platform. MS will show interest for a few years and then get bored.. unfortunately that's what MS is like. That's what they were like on PC. If the PS4 is substantially more powerful it will just make the whole situation even worse. |
Between the 360 gen and now MS has created 20 studios. It will be interesting to see if those studios can close the gap in 1st party games between MS and Sony. I will definitely say that Sony has the better collection of studios at this moment and they are all proven which is a good advantage. MS has partner with Crytek, Remedy and Insomniac. There is Epic still on the plate so who knows if MS has partner with them on something. Not sure how things will turn out but the way I see it everything starts from the beginning again. With 20 something studios and some decent partnerships, MS may surprise in the 1st and 2nd level exclusives.
