Future Playstation Products Will be Easier to Program says Yoshida

[Kynes]

Booh! said:

Kynes said:

Some have said already, but it seems that people ignore it. Familiarity doesn't translate to easiness.

Ok, programming the cell processor was never difficult, it was just unfamiliar.

And you work for what developer? What's your experience? Don't believe what Sony first party/second party/PR says, they will praise the Cell anyways. Listen to what third partys have said since the start of the generation, they are much more uninterested in praising an architecture over another one.

Heterogeneous architectures are orders of magnitude harder to work with than Homogeneous ones. That's why, having OpenCL or DirectCompute, we're still waiting for that killer app in home pcs where the graphics card makes a go-to-buy-it difference.