Front loaded Generation... What does that even mean?

[torok]

Intrinsic said:

I think you have the console business figured all wrong.  

 

• (since the new consoles are just standartized x86 pcs) just means familiar hardware so not a lot of time will be spent familiarizing with hardware. which means, 

 

As my response above said, the CPU doesn't make any, not even slight, difference. If Sony had put a PowerPC CPU in there and lied to everyone, it would still take some years for any dev notice that it is different. The compiler does the job.

And believe me, it isn't familiar hardware. Modern GPUs are crazy complex things. You don't become familiar with one that quick. It has several bottlenecks. This "x86 is easier BS" is something that a lot of people in foruns that never came close to see one line of code spread over there.