How well they nailed that gen is demonstrated by how the red ring didn't kill them. Nobody even cares that they knew about it before launch and said "fuck it, we'll replace them with ones that are hopefully correct" also before knowing they had corrected it.
The 360 was slightly too early for the integrated mobile world (and AMD really, they were still ATi) but they understood better than Sony did where consoles needed to go, probably in part because the Xbox was literally seeing how much shit from a PC they could cram in a box just to get something out there.
Kutugari was still on that "every machine will connect to every other machine and create a gigantic network" shit without anyone at Sony telling him no and nobody on his staff telling him the tech didn't exist for it so the Cell was never future proof. Even the Cell was a step back from the fact he already thought the PS2's would do it. Then that's the first thing they cut out to bring down the price. Meanwhile, it took how many years before any third-party developers bothered to learn how to use the SPU's. People forget how bad devs were at getting on the mulithreading train but us PC people knew how few ports used it. Also the exclusives, Crysis is only singlethreaded which is why it still runs like it does. That's why the remasters are built on the 360 versions. Microsoft, being a software company, knew their multithreading had to be pretty simple and near automatic at a basic level.
Sony wasn't helped by the fact they went with nVIDIA when that company was putting out the FX garbage then trying to recover from it and Microsoft was basically handed the price/performance GPU of that era. Not that Microsoft was going to go with nVIDIA after what happened with the first Xbox. It was the next generation after the RSX where nVIDIA got their mojo back and put out the 8800GT all time king.
Getting out a year early was big too. What if they had put out the Series S a year early and then the Series X when the PS5 launched? Xbox corporate culture is so weird because they do have these revolutionary concepts and then they always execute them in the most conservative way to where they're practically saying they're going to abandon it as soon as they have any issues. Remember when the Kinect was mandatory with the One and was like 75% of their presentations? Even though they never could articulate any reason for this other than "Xbox, watch ESPN." Thing was gone from the box in like six months.
The 360 was slightly too early for the integrated mobile world (and AMD really, they were still ATi) but they understood better than Sony did where consoles needed to go, probably in part because the Xbox was literally seeing how much shit from a PC they could cram in a box just to get something out there.
Kutugari was still on that "every machine will connect to every other machine and create a gigantic network" shit without anyone at Sony telling him no and nobody on his staff telling him the tech didn't exist for it so the Cell was never future proof. Even the Cell was a step back from the fact he already thought the PS2's would do it. Then that's the first thing they cut out to bring down the price. Meanwhile, it took how many years before any third-party developers bothered to learn how to use the SPU's. People forget how bad devs were at getting on the mulithreading train but us PC people knew how few ports used it. Also the exclusives, Crysis is only singlethreaded which is why it still runs like it does. That's why the remasters are built on the 360 versions. Microsoft, being a software company, knew their multithreading had to be pretty simple and near automatic at a basic level.
Sony wasn't helped by the fact they went with nVIDIA when that company was putting out the FX garbage then trying to recover from it and Microsoft was basically handed the price/performance GPU of that era. Not that Microsoft was going to go with nVIDIA after what happened with the first Xbox. It was the next generation after the RSX where nVIDIA got their mojo back and put out the 8800GT all time king.
Getting out a year early was big too. What if they had put out the Series S a year early and then the Series X when the PS5 launched? Xbox corporate culture is so weird because they do have these revolutionary concepts and then they always execute them in the most conservative way to where they're practically saying they're going to abandon it as soon as they have any issues. Remember when the Kinect was mandatory with the One and was like 75% of their presentations? Even though they never could articulate any reason for this other than "Xbox, watch ESPN." Thing was gone from the box in like six months.
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