[Justsignedup]

"the advantage of a console: hardware is fixed". YEP! Why use an abstraction layer when you can just code to the metal.

[arthulia]

Time? Do you write all your applications in assembly?

[taybin]

Many games run on multiple consoles.

[chucknelson]

Still a pretty small number (2-8 max?) compared to all of the PC configurations you have to worry about in DX and OpenGL land.