Japans PS3 Nightmare

[NJ5]

Dolla Dolla said:
Development for the PS3 is difficult, long, and costly. A new SDK for the PS3 is supposed to come out this summer.

The current PS3's SDK is in fact ridiculous, as anyone can see by reading the following article:

http://www.innerbits.com/blog/2007/05/09/ps3-memory-footprint/

Quick summary - PS3's operating system currently takes 52 MB out of its 256 MB main memory, and 32 MB of GPU memory, while the Xbox 360 OS occupies a total of 32 MB memory (no distinction between main and GPU memory in the 360 since it's shared).

Being a software developer, reading that makes me think that this SDK was developed by a bunch of crappy AND recently-graduated CS bachelors. It seems that Sony's mistakes go farther than marketing, PR and decision-making...

 I think it will be a while until the PS3 is *proven* to be capable of technologically better games than the 360, if that ever happens... Microsoft's experience with development environments is one more stone sitting on Sony's back.

PS: By the way, 1 out of the 7 Cell SPEs is reserved for the PS3's OS. Forum bug, click the second link! (archive.org links contain "http://", that's probably the cause for the bug)

http://www.ps3portal.com/?view=article&article=352&p=2">http://web.archive.org/web/20060415183759/http://www.ps3portal.com/?view=article&article=352&p=2