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Sony Makes It Hard To Develop For the PS3 On Purpose
adeelarshad82 writes "CNet reports on a bizarre comment from Sony's Computer Entertainment CEO in response to complaints from developers on how hard it is to develop games for the Playstation 3. 'We don't provide the "easy to program for" console that (developers) want, because "easy to program for" means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so then the question is, what do you do for the rest of the nine-and-a-half years?' Given that games heavily drive console sales, and the fact that the PS3 is already 8 million units behind the Xbox 360, I think making a developer's job harder is the last thing Sony needs."
wut? Did you miss the last 8 years of the GWB administration?
Where you been?
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
The entire point of that is ofcourse that Windows for example is full of crap apps because any moron is able to write a Windows app. But what if you log in with a user account in XP? Yup... all apps you have require root.
I can imagine that Sony doesn't want to sacrifice good technology and doesn't want to dumb it down for the stupid but just says: "Ok this is a special piece of hardware. Unit x, y and z are for multithreaded number crunching, unit k is for the graphics, this is for that, etc. and go ahead and utilise it to make something awesome. If you can't do it than go make your crappy software for the Wii".
And guess what? All crappy games are out on the Wii and do not utilise shit. The graphics of most games are even poorer than on the Gamecube.
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VB isn't dying with .Net. There's VB.Net
Yes, I do believe that I was aware of that since I *explicitly mentioned it*!
and it's still going strong.
Compared to what? My understanding was that since the move to .Net, VB's popularity had declined.
In a lot of cases it gets new features before C# does.
Which new features?
And you may be correct when you say that, but I'd still rather wait until they appeared in a language that was fairly standard and whose syntax was much more suited to "serious" development if the alternative is having those features tacked onto an inconsistent and clunky design that is the result of building years of cruft onto an ancient language's syntax which was designed around a language for novices running on underpowered prehistoric computers over a generation ago.
VB may have added many more features on since then, but the fundamental syntax still remains based around the design of that time, and it's clunky and horrible for modern programming.
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This is just more proof of how inept Sony has become. They've completely lost touch with their user base and at this point it appears that they are just trying to squeeze every last cent out that they can. Remember the days when games were abundant and didn't consist of 99% dog shit?