Final Fantasy 16 producer and 14 director Naoki Yoshida wishes everyone played games on the same console.

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    I think the only way that could possibly work is if all manufacturers followed the same specs. That way games can be developed for all platforms equally.

    3DO tried this, and failed spectacularly. Any other way would stifle competition though, which is bad for everyone.

    I’m confident there’s a way to make it work. 3D Printers operate with this model for the most part (thanks Jeff Prusa!)

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      A guy named Bill Gates also tried this, and was wildly successful. The platform is colloquially known as a PC.

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        I don’t think all PC players follow the same specs, in fact I guarantee it varies wildly from player to player.

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          Yes but they’re still correct. The specific hardware varies, but the underlying architecture is the same.

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            Effectively, console manufacturers should agree on some kind of standard architecture, which, to be very realistic and blunt (apologies as this isn’t necessarily the tone of the post, but I like trying to make things work in some way), as long as Nintendo is in the console game, it’s gonna be a bit difficult (unless we just let them do whatever they want console-wise and have the others create some kind of standard home console arch). As someone who is dipping their toes into game development, that is something I would love to see.

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              Xbox One/Series S/SeriesX and PS4/5 are x86 PCs, Switch is an ARM phone.

              So, in the lowest level they are pretty out of the shelf hardware. Electronics are getting way to complicated to invest in the development of custom hardware architectures for a single product.

              You take a commonly used architecture, fork an Operating System that you have access to, bundle as many libraries as makes sense and call it a day. No one is going to use weird quirks of the hardware except if you make some deal with Unity or Unreal.

              Thank Sony and the Cell Processor for that.

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              Why? What’s in it for them? The whole model is based on having a walled garden they make money on post console sale.

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          Certainly, I myself am on a Linux machine with a 1070Ti and a Xeon 1650 processor that’s never left it’s socket since it was placed in there in some factory. I would guess it’s somewhat rare to have a machine such as this because it was originally meant as a workstation (I can tell because the door has handles on the inside that make it an effective shield), and I would guess anyone who does have this set up will have Windows installed on it.

          That being said, differences in software between Windows and Linux is slowly becoming irrelevant with the continued development of proton and the various FOSS alternatives (i.e. GIMP replacing Photoshop). For the most part, the only differences these days are certain games from certain studios that for whatever reason decided not to check a box that says “Yes, I want this to work on Linux.” This of course disregards any specialist software that was only ever developed for Windows, which I’ve read numerous examples of.

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        It’s a different model entirely, most copies of windows sold will never have a game installed on them bar the pack-ins. No one is buying a console to do spreadsheets.

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      I’m amazed everyone seems to have forgotten the open nature was an Achilles heel for the 3DO model, then it occured to me that the console is 30 years old and I’m even older lol.

      The fact is that the console market works how it does, advanced tach at reasonable prices, because the platform holders make money on an ongoing basis from each user. Getting rid of that model will mean consoles selling for the same price as equivilent specced PCs at launch.