Japans PS3 Nightmare

[auroragb]

Taz42 said:

In response to auroragb, I think Sony's problems with tools and SDKs have a lot to do with their development being spread out all over the world and lack of overall coordination.

For example, if SCEE or SCEA needs some low level OS changes done in order to fix the debugger, they need to ask SCEI nicely and hope they will do it. Sometimes SCEI will do it and sometimes they will not and blame security issues. (in my experience, SCE priortizes security in development kits far higher than actually being able to develop) I'm sure they're making the right call sometimes, but it seems to me they are shooting themselves in the foot a lot.

I hear that this summer there will be a tools update that will finally make SPU (you know, those 6 micro CPUs that is supposed to deliver all that supercomputer performance) debugging not suck. That will be super if it is true, but still it is almost 2 years late.

You wonder why PS3 titles get delayed?

This is the exact thing that sony needs to get rid of.  The bureaucracy will kill developer relationship faster than anything.  Chief developers from the top tier publishers need direct access to system architect in sony that can make system wide architectural decisions and get them done.  going thru SCEA/SCEE is fine for the smaller developers, but sony needs to do this to hold on to exclusives and build confidence that publishers can succeed with PS3 titles...