Hvor lette eller hvor svære konsoller er at udvikle spil til har en ret beviselig afgørende effekt på om hvorvidt disse får succes. Hvis udviklere bruger for mange ressourcer på at forstå et bestemt økosystem, så trækker de sig, og dermed kan der opstå tørke.
Det lader dog ikke til at PlayStation 5-konsollen har det problem, for spørger man Digital Foundrys Richard Leadbetter, som snakker med mange, mange udviklere, så er hans indtryk at studier over hele verden er glade for at udvikle til maskinen. I et Youtube-interview siger han følgende:
"There are two ways to look at this. First of all, I can tell you every single developer I've spoken to developing for PS5 has been evangelising how easy it is to work for. It's essentially the same development environment as PS4 and you scale up from there, for the new power, the new features and whatnot. I can't stress enough how happy developers seem to be with this situation."
Dog siger han også senere i interviewet, at Xbox Series X uomtvisteligt, på papiret om ikke andet, er den mere kraftfulde konsol.
"Now specs wise... there's been a lot of conjecture about how Sony's boost clock brings it into contention against Series X, how a solid state storage drive with higher bandwidth is going to make for better graphics. If you look at the numbers, there is simply no doubt that the Xbox Series X is on paper, the more powerful machine."