Quote Originally Posted by Meowdyj View Post
So what? Even if it's always been a thing doesn't change the fact it's an outdated monstrosity. Early consoles weren't able to port games due architecture. It's 2023 however, they are able to release on any platorm yet chose not to.
They still have different coding. Games on early consoles were few MB in size. Nowadays we have monstrosities being released that are over 100GB (I think Ark can actually top 400GB if you have everything for it). That is alot of data to port over to a different platform. Developers nearly always do the initial development on 1 platform even on titles that release on multiple on launch day. It simply means they ported it to other platforms as part of the development cycle and is the reason we've seen a number of titles that released like that run better on 1 platform over others.