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Sony Says PS3 Will Be Developer Friendly

Posted by Zonk on from the huggable dept.

The next Playstation console has been designed with ease of development in mind, according to a story on GamesIndustry.biz. The PS3 an its relationship to the development community was discussed in depth at a GDC session earlier this week. From the article: "The PlayStation Portable's comprehensive set of tools and APIs has largely been well-received by developers, but for PlayStation 3, the company plans to go even further - adopting a number of familiar industry standard systems that will give game creators a running start on the platform."

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  1. Suuure it will by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What I've heard about the cell is pretty revolutionary, and promises incredible performance, but also looks like a nightmare to code for.

    No out of order execution, 2 different kinds of SIMD, with 8 independent vector processing cores to keep running, programer controlled memories instead of caches in the conventional sense? Yikes.

    Unless they're *WAY* ahead of the rest of the world on complier design and technologies, it is going to be very hard to get the most out of the Cell.

  2. Couldn't be much worse by Kamalot · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think they HAVE to say these kinds of things to keep developers from fleeing. Lip Service. With how different the cell is looking and how stodgy Sony has been with providing development support, is anyone shocked developers are worried? Costs of development are going up. Nintendo's Gamecube was very easy to develop for. Revolution will be equally friendly. Microsoft's unified development environment is looking very good for dev teams everywhere. Sony better make life VERY easy or developers won't wait around.