MikeB on 10 March 2008
@ gamerdtr
But deveopers will surely take the easy (lazy) way out for years to come, so oh well.
I think and hope companies won't have this luxury due to competition. The companies want to WOW! their customers, so I think with the PS3 becoming more important and PS3 exclusives as well as some cross platform titles being pushed much further there will be a huge push for devs to address software development more efficiently.
I think there are basically bigger and some smaller companies (like Housemarque) with very talented developers which will push the PS3 more and more. And then you have some bigger companies like Valve and ID Software who look at the PS3 architecture and then at their legacy engine and experience headaches thinking about all the adaptions required to make their engine competitive on the PS3.
And then you have companies lacking inhouse coder talent which are near fully dependent on middleware solutions, those companies will see benefits while the middleware matures, luckily most of the middleware providers do have good low level developers but they may also make platfrom specific sacrifices to suit easy cross platform portability for their engine (such as Epic, they seem to think their PS3 engine is mature enough already, for exclusive development being on par with other platforms like the PC is not good enough if more can be achieved).
