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Originally Posted by ichitaka05
This is how I see it. How many ppl own PS3 vs PS4? I guess is more ppl own PS3 than PS4, so Polyphony have more chance of selling GT6 on PS3 than PS4. It's all about $$$, my friend.
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It's not always about money, it's about development cycles and difficulty of porting code to a platform.. so..
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Originally Posted by fatoni
i believe the game is for the ps3 and not 4 because it takes pd forever to make a game. it began development before there was any ps4 hardware. i dont know if fitting in a ps3 title will significantly inhibit a ps4 title release.
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Exactly. There's a significant difference between the two consoles. Deciding the game would be on PS4 would require a lot of rewrite. Some assets could be salvaged, but you might as well be starting over at 50% at that point, and the game will show for it in the end too.
The PS4 is much closer to a PC in terms of its x86 architecture (Xbox One as well, except the ESRAM actually makes it harder to code for.) So that being said, development cycles will actually require less time for new games. And when you have a company churning out games, you can bet that while they're putting effort into the current release, there's at least a small group in the background at least prepping for the next before 6 was released. Rumors are already spreading that GT7 will be released on PS4 in 2014, but I suppose a "worst case" scenario is that we get a streaming version of it with Gaikai.