Carmack - Sony's restrictions on third-party ports

[Bodhesatva]

The most developer friendly of the three is Microsoft, and has been since they entered the industry.

1) They moneyhat quite often
2) They do not place restrictions on late ports
3) They do not require you to release games in english for the western audience
4) They went way out of their way to make sure the 360 was programmer friendly

Microsoft's entire approach is to make things as developer friendly as possible. It is MS' one true strength in the industry (because it sure isn't first party software! Zing!)