PS3's power locked away, says Free Radical

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kars said:

URNotE said:

But when individuals try to construe "locked away" power in the PS3 as negative, well that's just irresponsible and silly. Wait until the REAL games come out to judge - the games Sony is touting for this winter and next spring. Then the debates may begin on whether this console is worth the dough. Yeah, it's a ten-year console supposedly, but a year and a half to two years is a good starting point to judge the console's potential.

 You get it completly backwards. A plattform that's make it difficult to develop for isr first of all one thing: expensive for the development companies.

No sane devewloper I know enjoys working on a difficult plattforms, because the work simply never stops. There are ALWAYS possible changes in the structure of your program or possible features that could be implemented if they don't have to fight unstructered APIs or try to release some parts of a "locked" power. And these ideas could improve the game much more than 5% more power.

 

There are simply two possibilities: Either he is a masochist, or he is on an advertisment campaign for the PS-3. 

You are absolutely right, no sane developer ever liked working on the PS2 either, that's why there were never any 3rd party titles for it, all I ever had to play were 1st party titles, oh wait, that was on my buddies gamecube ;)