Its true that the PS3 culls the dull-minded from being able to eek out awesome performance from it, and rewards the intelligent engineer who can understand its curvy details.

Sadly... not a very good plan from a financial perspective, necessarily. Cool from a quality perspective, and that's assuming you own the market, and the smart engineers are interested in awesomeness (which has been known to yield good money), rather than easy money.  Honestly, the PS2 was pretty similar to the PS3, in concept.  I'm surprised at engineers who worked on the PS2 being so critical of the PS3.

If the PS3 ever surpasses, or even gets close to, the 360, it'll have been a very good decision.  Publishers will be able to cull bad studios much easier, and the games will be much better for it.  If Sony "wins", Gamers win.

The PS3's BD drive though... that was genious.  I'm still surprised when people knock that choice.  Sony will be rolling in money when(not if) BD takes over, and it'll make the losses from the PS3 development seem totally inconsequential.  The PS3's status in the "console war" doesn't even matter any more, on that front.

roflol...it's funny, no matter how many times one sees the article.

"We don't provide the 'easy to program for' console that [developers] want, because 'easy to program for' means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so then the question is what do you do for the rest of the nine-and-a-half years?" explained Hirai.

if it's difficult to program for, they wont be able to take advantge of the hardware.. pretty stupid comment, it seems they're trying to bury their mistakes LOL

it's better if it's easier to program for

maybe they translated incoorectly, fi they didn't interview in english...lol...or maybe he just believes the ancient monks had it right, with SEVERE self-scarifice.

Anyone who defends this....shit man.

This guy just said that Sony made their console hard to develop for, so the later games would look good by comparison.

That implies that Sony wanted its first gen games and multiplats to run poorly and not look as good, on purpose, when compared to their potential.

Which in turn simply means that every multiplat that is worse on a Sony console is by Sony design, and not the fault of developers at all.

Playstation 3 Multiplats: Working as Intended

That should be on a T-shirt.

It's an obvious lie, and on top of that, it was obviously not given much thought, and probably made up on the spot. This is the textbook definition of damage control, and there wasn't even much damage to control, until he started spouting garbage.

it has to be incorrectly translated,  'cause you just cant say that. it's stupid LOL

The only thing crazier than what Kaz said is the bat shit crazy stuff I've heard PS3 fanboys say to defend what Kaz said. There is no amount of spin you can put on this to make it sound any better.

Did he really say that? Great way to lure developers into making games for the PS3.