Twenty-five years ago, Microsoft entered the console market with a hulking black machine, an enormous controller and a game called Halo. What followed changed the industry in ways few could have predicted, and today, the original Xbox is finding an unlikely new home in our pockets.
Its wildly known persistent storage was a first in consoles tha is to the Xbox. DirectX also standardized quite a bit with gaming, also developers have quoted many times by saying the dev kits and developer experience were elevated by the Xbox team.
It changed quite a bit.
yeah, even in the 360/ps3 times I think it was common knowledge that developers much preferred the 360 because of how fucked it was to code for the PS3 in comparison. Japanese devs rarely beat the spaghetti code allegations back in the day, I’m sure it’s better nowadays
The PS3 was hell to code for. It was a completely unique architecture unlike anything else on the market. In a time where multi threading was in its infancy, the Cell processor required coding for 7 different threads on less individually capable cores. It had advantages like being able to dedicate entire pipelines to specific cores, preventing things from getting bogged down fewer main threads, but it required very specific development that wasn’t useful anywhere else.
yeah I doubt many developers were able to completely wrap their head around such complications. If I recall correctly there were games, like Crysis and RDR, that even ran at resolutions lower than 720p in order to meet a viable framerate (which still meant occasional dips to the 15-20s)