Microsoft respond to the EDGE article

[OdinHades]

orniletter said:

OdinHades said:
I understand all that stuff about balanced hardware and blah. The thing is, I don't believe that Sonys Hardware isn't balanced. In fact, when it comes to Hardware, Sony proved time and time again that they can 1-up Microsoft pretty easily. After all, that is to be expected from one of the biggest hardware manufacturers on the planet.

...ehhh, the PS2 and 3 were absolutely horrible to program for, some would call them needlessly convoluted messes even

There are horror storries out there of developers having to wade through phone book sized japanese manuals to get their damn devkit working (in the early days of the PS2)

...and we all still remember how keen developers were on the Cell and the seperated memory pools of the PS3

That's mainly a software issue. Sonys Dev Tools weren't exactly great. While the hardware is a little exotic, it doesn't mean it's bad.