People are silly for applauding this, it's the same issue that Nintendo brings about with nearly every one of their console or handheld releases. How the hell do they expect anyone to release games for the system if they don't know anything about it? What do they honestly expect them to deliver within a year? They kept quite, that's great, but in the process they've also damaged their relationship with third party developers by limiting their experience and development time with the console.
Khuutra brought up a point about how the technical part of game development is easy in comparison to the conceptual part, that'd be perfectly fine and true if Nintendo were actually releasing a normal console, but they aren't. One of the main problems with the Wii was coming up with new ways to use the controller and they rarely worked as intended, it was just a lot of random risks and dodgy gameplay methods until a few years had passed and a few third party developers actually grasped what they could do with the controller (Red Steel 2, Shattered Memories), but by that point it was too late.
They need time to work with the hardware, have enough experience with the controller so that they confidently apply their skills to a good game and then actually make the game. If they don't, then we'll see the same thing that happened with the Wii and that is a whole bunch of poor third party ports with wonky motion control implementation and a handful of exclusive games that use the motion controller, but have such a poor implementation that it ends up hurting the overall game.
Bet with Conegamer and AussieGecko that the PS3 will have more exclusives in 2011 than the Wii or 360... or something.
