Fair call, sorry to over-simplify.

Rendering full horizon does have implications including how to handle physics, AI, and animation. When looking at the sceen top down, handling LOD’s, and culling things not in the scene should be much easier.

From what I’ve read elsewhere (interviews with 17-BIT) Microsoft didn’t treat them very well at all, on X360 or Windows 8, so they were keen to go elsewhere. I wouldn’t write off it going multi-plat down the road, though – they might just be working on one platform at a time. It deffo wouldn’t make any sense to them to limit their audience. That said, given the different pitches of the PS4 and XB1, we may well see indie sales stronger on PS4 as indie-favouring gamers are more likely to pick it up. I still reckon there’s a decent chance there’ll be enough XB1 sales to entice them to bring it over 🙂

The camera perspective doesn’t have a huge impact (unless you go crazy wide-angle) on the actual rendering required for the world, and no impact at all on the physics and AI. Until we know more about the game, it’s best not to judge too hastily.

REALLY! It’s a Top View Shooter…… You can probably hit 120fps, don’t think it would take much.

You can still play it on PC, you haven’t lost anything.