Do you prefer the generations that were competitive, or one-sided?

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Spindel said:

curl-6 said:

This is a really good point, I do kinda miss when the consoles were more differentiated and had totally different approaches to graphics, audio, storage, etc.

Today's more standardised setup isn't quite as interesting, even if it is better for developers.

It isn’t better for developers, limitations feed innovation.  The only ones the current landscape is better for is investors. 

Exotic architecture increases development time and costs, that wasn't so much of an issue back when games were cheap to make, but in the current landscape where major games take 5+ years and tens/hundreds of millions of dollars, it's a pretty significant problem.

It can also result in poor multiplatform releases as we saw with PS3.