Final-Fan said:
But on the other hand, the PS4 won't be coming off of the massive success of the PS2. The PS3 will probably be in a strong 2nd position, but it will be far behind the leader, and far, FAR from the crushing dominance of the PS2. It's impossible to say at this point exactly what impact that will have on the level of support the PS4 will have out of the gate, but it will not have the same level of developer confidence and support that the PS3 initially had. |
PS4 will have more developer confidence and support, not less, if its architecture is based an evolution of the Cell processor, as it likely will be. (E.G. 64 SPUs and 8 dual-thread PPUs running at 5Ghz -- IBM has already run Cells at 6ghz +). Devs will come out of the gate rocking the hardware because they already know it from its infant state -- in PS3. This, I think, has always been the plan.
Initial dev confidence and support don't depend so much on whether the previous console sold 75 million or 150 million units, so much as they depend on the architecture: is it PC-like, or is it like another console that the devs already know how to work with (360 and Wii had those advantages, respectively, over the PS3 this gen, but next gen if PS4 still uses improved Cell(s) or other more standard chips, the advantage is gone).
