It certainly doesn't seem to have impacted adoption, though. For whatever reasons developers seem loath to talk about how difficult developing for a given cons

It certainly doesn't seem to have impacted adoption, though. For whatever reasons developers seem loath to talk about how difficult developing for a given console architecture is until the console is dead and buried. I guess the assumption is that the console vendor might retaliate, or the fans might say, "Well all of these other companies are somehow doing it, so you guys must just suck at your jobs." An early interview with Shinji Mikami is one of the only ones I can recall about a high-profile being frank about having difficulties developing for the console[0]: > IGNinsider: Ahh, smart politics. How do you feel about working on the PlayStation 2? Have you found any strengths in the system by working on Devil May Cry that you hadn't found before? > > Mikami: If the programmer is really good, then you can achieve really high quality, but if the programmer isn't that great then it is really hard to work with. We lost three programmers during Devil May Cry because they couldn't keep up. [0] https://www.ign.com/articles/2001/05/31/interview-with-shinji-mikami-ps2 https://www.ign.com/articles/2001/05/31/interview-with-shinj...