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Machiavellian said:
overman1 said:

Eventually 3rd party developers would be able to do more with the PS4 engine than the Xbox one's. It would be up to them to decide whether or not to take advantage of that.

Think about it, even today 3rd party developers do not put in the time or resources to make the PS3 look or even perform better than the 360 version after 10 years. There is nothing that will change for 3rd party developers because their focus is not to make one platform outperform the other but to make all platforms perform as equal as possible.  

Can 3rd party developers push the PS4 harder, probably so but for a money, time and resource standpoint, its better they push the other hardware more to reach the PS4.  The thing is, thats doess adding a few more framerates or pixil really going to sell the PS4 version more than adding parity for the weaker console.  This was the case last gen and it remains today.  Nothing change but the players position.


Couldn't have said this better myself.  At the end of the day the 3rd party developer wants to sell as many copies as possible on every console they release on.  This means they aren't going to modify the formula greatly in any particular area to improve one console's version ahead of another without compensation to make up for what would be the lack of sales resulting on the other console.