Carmack - Sony's restrictions on third-party ports

[NJ5]

Darc Requiem said:
NJ5, Sony was only the most friendly towards third party developer leading up to and shorty after the PS1's launch. After they cemented their dominance of the industry Sony has been anything but friendly to third party developers. The PS2 was not only difficult to develop for but had extremely poor documentation. The PS2 was thought not to have hardware AA but it was later discovered that it in fact did but it was not noted in the development kit documentation. The PS3 followed the same path. Sony has had this policy going back to PS2. Its why Tales of Symphonia and Resident Evil 4 had bonus content on PS2.

Thanks for the info, I didn't know some of those things. I knew that Sony's technical side isn't great for developers, but I thought they were more friendly on the business side of things.

I'd also have thought they'd be more lax this time since they have the smallest userbase to offer to developers. This puts things into a new perspective for me.