by Eddie Makuch
Back in August, PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida said Sony was mystified by the smashing success of the PlayStation 4. At the time, he said the system's overwhelming popularity "defied the conventional thinking," which the executive said could in fact even be a problem. To understand where a platform is going, you need to know how it got there, he argued...
"But when you ask the question; what did the PS4 and Xbox Onedo better than PS3 or Xbox 360, it's a harder question almost to answer," he said...
Compared to the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, the PS4 and and Xbox One are up on a double-digit percentage basis compared to where the last-generation consoles were over the same period of time.
Yoshida said the PS4's focus "completely shifted" compared to the PS3's. With the PS3, Sony attempted to build a "super-computer," he said. The idea was that developers would quickly understand how to make the most of the hardware and the platform would be a rousing success. But that didn't exactly happen. As it turned out, the PS3's Cell processor wasn't the simplest to understand right away, and it "took a long time" for developers to get fully acclimated to the system.
When setting out to design the PS4, Sony's planning teams changed course.
"So what we really focused on for PS4 was ease of development and ease of use by consumers and developers," he said. "And I think that's paying off really handsomely."
More at teh link:
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/why-sony-thinks-ps4-is-a-massive-success/1100-6432902/
My opinion: I think that was obvious from the get go
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