Resistance was what 3 threads and had some of the best AI I've ever faced on a console game so UbiSoft has no excuse for their developers to not have enough knowledge with the added help of the tools Sony has released to help them develop games make great PS3 games. With PCs having 4 cores now doesnt that mean they will have trouble making PC games too now?

I don't think Ubisoft should be taken even remotely serious anymore.
Ever since their "The PS3 can't run Splinter Cell: Conviction", I'd take everything they say with a nice, and biased, grain of salt.

 EDIT: Whether or not it is harder to do on the PS3 makes no difference. Ubisoft is saying it isn't possible on the PS3, and that simply is not true.

Are you suggesting that games published by Sony don't have an edge on the PS3 tools versus a 3rd party developer?

LOL...WOW that was funny because your true Quickdraw McGraw...I can't trust or believe them anymore.

Its not an issue of it being impossible on a PS3 - just being a lot more difficult to write. I know enough about the architecture of both machines (and have been coding for more than 20years), so I know this as fact.

When creating a PS3 from scratch, it wouldn't be that hard to design AI that works efficiently on the CPU.

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Don't bring Killzone into the equation. The AI requirements are completely different, the game is different, etc. Its a game that is obviously designed to take the strengths of the PS3 into account. 

There is a general C compiler for the SPUs, and it has lots of useful specific functions to program efficiently (like performing SIMD operations and shuffling and what not).  What the SPUs are especially bad at is traversing dynamically allocated data structures or accessing random places in memory, which can be important for AI.

With clever programming, you can offload some AI tasks to the SPUs, especially if you can batch them efficiently, put them into lists, that sort of thing.

Correct on that shams. Killzone is a game directly developed for the PS3 so Killzone shouldn't even be brought up in this discussion. Splinter Cell is multi-platform game and Ubisoft find it easier to develop for the Xbox 360 then the PS3. I don' care we got MGS4 anyway and Konami isn't complaining, the only thing their complaining about is the user base thats all.

 no im saying Sony is handing out assistance for developers. 1st party devs developed the tools Sony gave to 3rd party so 3rd party should be able to accomplish tasks just as well as 1st party.

 How would 1st party not have an edge on the tools when they developed them? 

Cool, thanks for the info.

So it should be possible to offload the same AI to the SPUs - just not particularly efficient (which should matter). Even at 10% efficiency, a couple of SPUs should be able to handle all the AI requirements (constant random main memory accesses might kill the data cache though).

Its just a question of difficulty anyway - as it always is (i.e. you can port anything to any device - just a question of results... i.e. Assassins Creed on the DS, but not on the Wii!).

Why didn't Sony just use a regular cpu like everyone else instead of trying to solve a problem that never existed? I can see how some people here might blame the software developers or claim they're lazy or that we just have to wait until "next year" but the fact remains that had Sony just built the thing PS3 from a game programmer's perspective instead of an engineering one we likely wouldn't be seeing all these delays, mediocre performance, and additional costs being associated with a lot of PS3 software.