We heard that before - Mark Cerny said during PS4 reveal that it took 1 month to get a working code in the PSX era, then 3 months for the PS2, and then a full year for the PS3, and that with PS4's simplified design, shared memory pool, X86 architecture etc. they went back to just one month again. Well, needless to say, it takes not two, not even three years, but most often half a decade (if not more) to make a game for the PS4., and they still feel rushed, unfinished.
But then again, it took just three years for Kojima to start from zero to finishing one of the most technically advanced games out there, so there is a chance that indeed all the tools are finalized and set up, and all the devs can focus on is actually making the games, instead of tweaking this, tweaking that etc. And/or, the next-gen consoles will actually be very balanced systems, with no serious bottlenecks, and the devs will be able to easily manifest their ideas, instead of wasting so much time on optimizing, cutting corners, and so on. A man can dream, but who knows?
Let’s wait to hear more from these developers themselves.
Especially Hellpoint dev
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