this is where early systems excelled, the amiga is the
best example I can
think of this.
specialized chips for almost every function, offloaded work from the cpu.
yet it still wasn't terribly difficult to code for.
This is something of a lie, because things yesterday were WAY easier.
Less code, less memory, less graphics, less everything. Every aspect of a
PS3 game is many orders of magnitude more complicated and bigger than
anything made before!