ps3 IS hard to develop for ........................................... wow NEWS

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Does this look like a console pusher to you?
(seriously honest question)

edit: forget about that, the screens are from the beta( I think), it's unfair to judge it now by those screens anyway

We've been over this before. The 360 does have more available memory. Even if you don't include the additional 10MB EDRAM on the 360's GPU the 360's OS takes up less space than the PS3's. Its not a massive difference but the 360 does have more available memory and you don't take the speed hit from having access the split memory banks on the PS3 either.

Who says it has to be all about graphics. It could be the gameplay or AI. Are you implying other than graphics the PS3 and 360 have no limits?

    LOL,I was just gonna say the same thing,Infact even the most simplest game can take years to develope on a console if the console is hard to dev for..

hiring some help from sony....wow that is probably the greatest idea i have ever heard!!! hell maybe just try asking sony for help. some other developers should take a page from his book

The "lazy developer" excuse has got to be one of the most idiotic things posted on gaming forums, yet it gets posted over and over again. Game programmers are some of the most overworked, underpaid people in the entire tech industry. Huge overtime every week is commonpace, with no overtime pay, all for a significantly lower salary than they could make elsewhere. As for "it doesn't matter as long as both versions come out the same", my understanding is that devs might not have much choice these days. I've heard Sony will no longer certify multiplatform games if the PS3 version is substantially inferior to the 360 version.

I wholeheartedly second this. Freespace 2 is the best space flight "sim" I've played, even surpassing X-Wing/TIE Fighter series. And that's a hell of an accomplishment.

On another note, anyone complaining about lazy devs should try some game programming themselves. Preferably in some commercial company with budgets and deadlines to meet. Most of you don't seem to understand, or even appreciate, how incredibly difficult it is to make even a simple 3D-game with physics modeling, collision detection, perhaps even some AI etc. AND have it all run in real time with steady frame rate.

Lazy devs my ass. Some devs are better than others, not everybody can be a Carmack, but they are hardly lazy.

From a game design student, thanks for letting everyone know the reality of it all!  The PS3 architechture just sucks is all--less proprietary mem and bad CPU design for the current day.