Sony Makes It Hard To Develop For the PS3 On Purpose

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday March 1, 2009 @04:19AM from the how's-that-working-out-for-you dept.

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."

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Straight from the OSS fanboi playbook by Anonymous Coward · 2009-03-01 04:22 · Score: 5, Funny

"We don't want stupid people using our stuff"
Brilliant! by DoofusOfDeath · 2009-03-01 04:24 · Score: 5, Funny

1. Develop console containing pretty cool hardware.
2. Make it hard to develop, while Microsoft and Nintendo have the opposite goal.
3. In the early years of the console, have many fewer good games than XBox360 does. So constantly be at risk of not reaching critical mass.
4. ???
5. Profit!
Sounds like Sony turned this into a SDK philosophy.
Re:Let darwin decide? by Attaturk · 2009-03-01 05:00 · Score: 5, Funny

...because it's written by a guy who actually RAN a video game store. For several years.
Wow. That's a mighty impressive qualification. ;)