One of the golden things about gaming consoles is that software is typically written with the exact hardware in mind and there are pretty big costs on both side

One of the golden things about gaming consoles is that software is typically written with the exact hardware in mind and there are pretty big costs on both sides of the vendor/buyer relationship. You have the opportunity to be able to know exactly how all of your customers will run it and you have a good chance of having the extra $ to actually give a damn about performance.