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[ThaGuy]

If we're keeping the topic strictly between the 3 home console machines, they all have knowledge of each other's future plans between hardware and software releases. Games like Minecraft/MLB/CoD means newer dev kits are in the hands of competitors that have to develop/update these games for a vast amount of hardware.

Can NDA's alone realistically stop the competition to not copy you or gain an advantage in both the hardware and software front?

 

[kevboard]

Microsoft and Sony both use nearly the exact same hardware... so not much to copy here, in the end, 99% of what's inside the box is designed by AMD.

Nintendo not only uses Nvidia hardware, which isn't something that would give the other 2 any advantage if they knew about what they're doing, as they can't really react to that... but they also use ARM, which again the other 2 can't react to or do anything with any knowledge gained.

so, in the end, it's irrelevant.
if this was Gen5 or 6, sure, then there would be more to "steal" there, but now? nah

 

[BennyBlanco]

The reason both Xbox and Ps5 are nearly identical is they’re both using AMD hardware.

 

[ThaGuy]

Microsoft and Sony both use nearly the exact same hardware... so not much to copy here, in the end, 99% of what's inside the box is designed by AMD.

Nintendo not only uses Nvidia hardware, which isn't something that would give the other 2 any advantage if they knew about what they're doing, as they can't really react to that... but they also use ARM, which again the other 2 can't react to or do anything with any knowledge gained.

so, in the end, it's irrelevant.
if this was Gen5 or 6, sure, then there would be more to "steal" there, but now? nah

If we're looking at the hardware architecture I understand that part, but moreso of what they're going to include in said hardware from parts to what the controller will do. I would never have guessed sony would make their controller do so much with the same concept.