sort of, if you go back into the NES and Gameboy days, sure, but PS2/Xbox had an operating system that it loaded and so did PS3/Xbox 360. Microsoft took a step

sort of, if you go back into the NES and Gameboy days, sure, but PS2/Xbox had an operating system that it loaded and so did PS3/Xbox 360. Microsoft took a step "backwards" in allowing it to load any variant of the SDK that you built the game with. In contrast, you had to keep rebuilding your PS4 games when they came out with new major SDK versions, so the development experience was definitely better on the xbox one. (oh, and you could turn a test kit into a retail kit was great too, as someone who worked closer to live operations than dev only).