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We know the PS3 has problems, we know it is hard to develop for, we know developer after developer has cited problems in the PS3's hardware. This being said, why do PS3 supporters continue to make defenses for the hardware like there is any benefit of the doubt left to be had?

Even if you could argue that the PS3 is the most perfect gaming system ever made its developers are obviously having problems with it and the games are suffering because of that. Make all the excuses and justifications you want but how many potential consumers do you think are going to buy the PS3 on the fact that it potentially could have fantastic games where as in reality it's getting gimped versions.

This is a problem and blaming developers isn't going to make it a non-issue, it just means (assuming there is any validity to your argument) that Sony can't get good developers and you're going to be screwed either way. If these are problems that need to be hashed out by developers as was the case with the PS2, then don't hold your breath because the number of developers on the PS3 aren't even a fourth of those who were developing for the PS2 and the length and cost of making games for the PS3 compound the issue only further, it will be a very long time before we see the kind of turn around it took the PS2 before we started seeing developers adapting to its shortcommings.