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Couldn't Sony do something like the iPhone? The device could get a refresh every year or every six months, while all of the games would keep working on it.
by Hawramani 15y ago
Couldn't Sony do something like the iPhone? The device could get a refresh every year or every six months, while all of the games would keep working on it.
- daeken 15y agoThe huge perk to console development is having a fixed set of hardware for a long period of time. You can build up technology, learn the ins and outs of optimizing on it, and build the best software possible. That's how people did crazy things with the PSX by the end of its lifecycle, same with the PS2, Xbox, etc. The longer you've been working on something, the better you're going to be with it. Switching to a short console lifecycle -- even if it's forwards-compatible -- nullifies almost the entire set of benefits to console development.
- antrix 15y agoLike the Xperia Play? http://www.sonyericsson.com/mwcnews/xperia_play/ http://www.sonyericsson.com/mwcnews/xperia_play/