It's so good that a praise thread needs to be created every day, sometimes more than one.
I've yet to see a product that needed so much re-assurance from all sides, fans, devs, publishers, engine builders and w/e else.
Sounds like PS5 is going to be the best thing since slice bread, the tempest engine, controller, variable clocks, audio and whatever else.
I does feel more like a desperate pre-emptive damage control rather than an actually good PR/marketing. But hey, I don't blame anyone, all those journalists strive for clicks, views, likes, shares/retweets, comments, they have to make a living, it's all just a business. We'll most likely never get to know who those mysterious "developers" were, what studio/publisher they work for, what games they have been working on at the time, few months from now no one will remember nor care about all those revelations, but as of now guys like Jeff are having their 5min. of fame.
Don't believe it. Both are basically PCs. Both will be equally easy to develop for. All these pre launch noise doesn't matter.
Yeah, people seem to forget both consoles are build by on the exact same AMD solutions/architectures, give or take few customizations here and there, but we already saw that with no less than 4 current-gen systems, where at the end of the day a PC that's simply just more powerful can brute force through all those customizations/optimizations and call it a day. Times of exotic, never seen before, hard to master architectures are long time gone, there's no magic, no secret source in the upcoming consoles like some want to believe, the next-gen consoles will be more or less a closed spec Zen2+RDNA2 PCs, nothing more.
And the game engines themselves are build to support multiple platforms to begin with, the tools are all the same no mater what system your aiming for, the "easier to develop for" argument is only relevant to 1st party engines/games, which again, as Cerny said, the "time to triangle" doesn't mean much, and the devs can still take 5-7 years to make their games, if that's how long it takes to fully materialize their vision of the game.
Bottom line is, it's the exact same start of a new generation like any other, where the upcoming consoles will supposedly allow for new, never seen before, never experienced before, never possible before, unimaginable things, and then when they actually launch the reality strikes hard, really hard.