TheChubu

I'm sure there's a good reason why it does this, so that's why I'm asking.

Because Java has string concatenation in a very special place, his heart, its a magical place where overrideable operators live and thrive! So it can do very special things in there, like the one you described.

I'd guess we'll see the differences in a few years when both consoles pass the middle of their lifespan in the market with developers pushing more and more each platform's specific strengths.

Right now I'd expect very little difference on multi platform titles. I'm more intrigued about what the x86 (x86_64?) transition will mean on the PC side of things...

Nothing at all. Last console I had was a Playstation 1. I'll keep my current desktop as it is. i5 2500K, GTX 560 Ti 1Gb (this one is going to suffer ) plus 16Gb of DDR3.

Calls to OpenGL are the same in C, C++, Java, and probably any other wrapper for the C bindings out there. And if they're different, you probably came across some framework rather than a wrapper. So I don't think you will have problems with that.

Xbox One... Does it uses Android?