There were many other processors that would have been cheaper for them to use and wouldn't have caused developers headaches and many delayed games. So why did they go with such a processor when they knew the problems it was going to cause? I seem to remember Ken Kutaragi dismissing the concerns that the Cell would create problems for developers by saying they would simply have to start from scratch and learn a new way to program games. It really struck me as him being arrogant at the time and I wondered if he cared at all for the third parties which made the system the success it was in the first place.
It seems to me that Sony was just using their Playstation brand to push other technologies that weren't needed in a gaming console and considered many Playstation fans as mindless drones that would buy any console the company released with the Playstation logo. Another example besides the Cell is Blu-Ray, was it really required in a next generation gaming console like Sony told everyone? I can't help but wonder what the system would have been like with a normal dvd drive, would the games have been horribly different? Would a game like Resistance: Fall of Man which was their showcase title been not possible on a dvd9 disc?
Anyways I guess I should simply accept the fact that third parties will suffer because of the PS3 and hope that the fallout isn't enough to hurt multi-platform games that are also on the 360. As long as the majority of developers release their games as scheduled on the 360 and those delayed because of the PS3 don't pull the 360 versions back as well I should be happy and remember that things could be much worse.
