Last Remnant's delay: Unreal Engine to thank for?

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NJ5 said:

Seriously, everyone should give Microsoft some credit for making a console with a friendly architecture. Going by the declarations of many developers, if there's something that Microsoft brought to the console world it was greater ease of development, through friendlier architectures and better development tools which were previously only available for development on the PC.

It's also true that Microsoft moneyhats companies for exclusive games (like Sony does), but let's not pretend that's the whole story.

 

 

Absolutely agree with everything here.

At some point, people must give credit to Microsoft for making their system easy to program. We heard stories before the 360 was released of Microsoft furiously visiting third parties finding out how they wanted the system made; we now here stories constantly of how much easier the system is to develop for. Some people seem to want to insist that this isn't true, or that even if it is developers are lazy stupid heads if they rely on streamlined architecture. Come on guys -- Microsoft very consciously made their platform easy to develop for, and it has paid off. The end.

I also strongly agree that Microsoft moneyhats people, but not everything they've gotten in the last couple years is a result of that. Please remember that MS has a larger marketshare and sells more software (on average -- not this week!) than Sony does right now; in addition to the streamlined architecture, this explains why Microsoft seems to be getting breaks with third parties that Sony may not be getting right now.