| asqarkabab said: It will be like the ps4 |
That's the only guarantee. I can promise you that they'll never make their console intentionally hard to dev for again unless they put a complete moron in charge like Xbox had at the beginning of this gen.
The "hard to dev for" thing semi-worked with the PS2, but that was only because it had big momentum from the first PlayStation and full a year headstart on the Xbox and Gamecube. The Dreamcast was out but Sega had shot themselves in the foot so much from the previous gens that they couldn't continue to support it, so the PS2 was the only game in town for sometime before the other 2 even launched.
Sony thought that meant they could do whatever they wanted with the PS3, built foreign custom hardware in a time that PC style games were becoming more popular to reduce piracy and it backfired, big time. I read somewhere that the custom parts cost them 3-4 times what it would have cost with off the shelf parts with the same or even more power. The much-hyped Cell Processor was a disaster and it baffled PC devs with games either coming out butchered or in the case of Skyrim, outright broken.
Needless to say, I think they learned their lesson, and if I'm them, Mark Cerny would be the lead architect of every console they make until the end of time.
