The biggest criticism the PlayStation 3 released with was the difficulty developers had with programming for the console. Most complained it was too difficult, too time consuming or not cost-effective enough. This is something Sony has taken into consideration on a serious level and is working towards eliminating when the PlayStation 4 and other future Sony platforms release to the marketplace.

Speaking with Games Industry again, Shuhei Yoshida revealed that PlayStation Move was built with Worldwide Studios involved and it was the first platform from Sony to take this step. Yoshida mentions that this is going to bring platforms a long way in making them more accessible to developers.

“Actually, I’d say that Move was the first platform project that, from day one, from the very conceptual stage, had Worldwide Studios involved. WWS was involved before SCE’s hardware guys were involved. It was between Richard Marks, the SCEA R&D group and Worldwide Studios teams – they started looking into next-gen motion gaming, and tried every different kind of technology, including 3D cameras and other motion capture technologies like magnetics or ultrasound. Not only do we give them input, but Worldwide Studios’ tech teams are part of the platform OS and tools development. That’s a completely new world as well.”

This is great news for everyone involved. This will not only benefit developers and programmers in the future, but in return, it also benefits us as gamers. Sony has definitely taken a lot of positive strides over the last year and hopefully the company continues in this direction.

http://www.playstationuniversity.com/future-playstation-products-will-be-easier-to-program-for-4546/

Click on the "Games Industry" hyperlink in the second paragraph if you want to find the original interview.

So no CELL in the PS4 confirmed then, good to know.

Do you mean PS4? 

Makes sense. It took like a full year before good games started coming to PS3 with the exception of the very good Resistance Fall of Man.

So all this for nothing? well at least they learned something out of it.

yup...

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I would hope they will at least have the CELL in the PS4 for the sake of backwards compatibility. Like they did with the PS2's Emotion chip at the start of the PS3's generation.

far to expensive as they learnt this gen, they quickly dropped that to save money, maybe there will be a premium model but I doubt it.

You don't think they will make the same stupid mistakes as they did this gen do you? They are already avoiding one in making the system developer friendly. 

There's no way to know what the cost of an old chip will be when the next wave of consoles hits. People around here keep saying the PS3 will go down to $200 at some point.

I also don't think the inclusion of bluray or the CELL chip was a "stupid" mistake. The console became a trojan horse for the new format and has already pumped out some ridiculously beautiful games. SONY is helping the industry progress, whether or not they reach the level of profitability they might like.

Make it easier but not to easy we need something to distinguish good developers from bad ones.