Article on Sony-3rd Party Relationships on PS3

[Diomedes1976]

Well ,some of this may be true .

But I think too that Sony has been working hard to support third parties and to a degree they have succeded .Last summer they sent the new development kits Playstation Edge ,they halved the kits price in two ,they sent their own engineers to the software houses to help them and that proved instrumental in Epic optimizing the Unreal 3 Engine for the PS3 and allowing for a lots of projects to finally be released and future ones to have far less problems ,they have also pushed Insomniac to share their developing know-how to everybody too ...and lets not forget the Engine (free !) that they showed last GDC that allows to easily translate PC games into PS3 games .

I think Sony is working hard in that direction ,although its still lagging behind Microsoft wich is a software company after all .

In any case the PS2 was far worse support-wise and still developers had to crack their heads to harness its power .Now with the PS3 they have it easier and the console is growing faster and faster so no worries about its future .

I think ,though ,that some PC developers are specially bitter with Sony .They are specially easy on their largely know DirectX and XNA tools and with things like that and want that model to impose in the industry .They dont want to learn new arquitechtures ,new programming languages or to optimize anything ...they want things to keep simple and the same .These kind of developers are giving nasty remarks to the PS3 sometimes (as that fat bastard Gabe Newell ) and shows little sympathy for it .Too bad for them that wont change a thing and they will be forced to come back later and behind in the learning curve once the PS3 is the main HD console and thats not too far away .

Other developers ,though ,as Midway ,Criterion ,INfinity Ward and recently Lucas Arts ,have stated they are going to develop first for the PS3 .We will see what happens .