The PS3 is hard to develop for and the return on investment isn't as high as on other platforms. Other than the PS3 exclusives or games originally developed with the PS3 in mind, you don't see many games that run just as well on the PS3 as it does on other platforms.
No it doesn't have to do with the openness. But it also does not have to do with anyone's shortcomings other than the PS3's innate difficult programming paradigm. When a programmer has to manually code in data movement to local stores in each SPE and debug on such low level, he/she won't have as much time polishing the finner things of the game and as a result won't be as productive as a programmer coding for other platforms.
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The PS3 is hard to develop for and the return on investment isn't as high as on other platforms. Other than the PS3 exclusives or games originally developed with the PS3 in mind, you don't see many games that run just as well on the PS3 as it does on other platforms. No it doesn't have to do with the openness. But it also does not have to do with anyone's shortcomings other than the PS3's innate difficult programming paradigm. When a programmer has to manually code in data movement to local stores in each SPE and debug on such low level, he/she won't have as much time polishing the finner things of the game and as a result won't be as productive as a programmer coding for other platforms.