Kaz: We don't program the easy to develop for console that developers want

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nordlead said:
As a computer engineer I hang my head in shame to think people like Kaz exist

So rather than make your console have good games as soon as possible, you make programmers lives miserable, games take longer to develop to achieve the same quality, costs skyrocket, along with a host of other problems that gain you absolutely nothing but grief.

Now, I don't really think they thought this when they first designed the PS3 with the CELL and RSX chip (or whatever their graphics chip is). I think this is Kaz making lame excuses on why it is so hard to program for the PS3. Also throw in marketing probably forced them to make "the most powerful" console, and I'm sure some Sony engineers are sorry they made it how they did.

^ This.

However, let it be said that I don't believe what Kaz said. It's most likely just spin, they didn't really make the console hard to develop for on purpose.

Of course, they didn't really care much about development ease either, which is almost as big a problem.