No, I'm not saying that there could never be an alternate reason.....I'm just sick of the "it probably costs too much" argument. If Sega was lacking so much money with regard to PS3 development, then why have they made 5 PS3 exclusives (one timed), and a bunch of other games that as far as we know are equal across both platforms?  If money was an issue, then the above statement would be null and void..and yet Sega has obviously done well with the PS3 this gen....and then this fiasco with Bayonetta happens......

I by no means am saying they are lazy, because if they were lazy, Valkyria Chronicles wouldn't be one of the best games of this generation, but to try and use the money excuse? When it hasn't been an issue before for this company? Come on now.....

Like I said, if they had "limited assets", they wouldn't have produced 5 top notch PS3 exclusives, nor would any of their multiplats be equal (aka always inferior on the PS3)...yet that's obviously not the case after 3 years of the PS3 being on the market.

Do you have any links to these reviews?

didn't sony fix it?

I'd suggest everyone go watch IGN's two video reviews and you can see what they're talking about. Loading times for doing things like pausing and viewing saved game files is ridiculous.

Wow, everything else I read stated the opposite.

Your comment is what I expected from a PS3 owner. I never said that there weren't games vastly better on PS3, but, of course, your SDF nervous system had to make that an issue. My point was/is that only PS3 exclusives or games the devs have to expend more time and money than when developing for the other consoles is ONE of the PS3 weaknesses. How come PS3fans cannot admit any faults of their console? It boggles the mind at the inherent arrogance they project to owners of the Wii & 360. The 360 and Wii weaknesses are known and accepted but not the PS3...."it does everything" (that byline is arrogance to the nth degree). BTW, it doesn't do everything since it can't make UC2 (GOTY) sell much better than AC2 when there are over 28 milllion PS3 owners.

Yes, I can say "of course it could have been better" when ANY game has the time and money to spend endlessly on improving it....duh

It's sad that you don't know already that it ALWAYS has to do with deadlines and money issues when AAA game developers can't meet their expectations. One exception is when a certain console is also difficult to program

Lazy devs... I don't know about that, I think the fact of the matter was they developed this game only for the xbox 360. The PS3 version was a quick port the publisher wanted (sega) to go on sale day and date with the 360 one, and we all know how ports turn out when you bring a game from xbox360-> PS3 (I'm talking ports, not re-engineered games like NGSigma2). The whole problem here is the fact platinum games did not have the foresight to think a PS3 version was going to happen, or they ditched the PS3 or decided not to come to grips with it. They needed to be working on PS3 from the get go of development and they weren't. So I don't know if it was lazy devs, but rather poor decision making on Platinum Game's end. Personally i don't think Platinum games cared if a PS3 version ever existed. A proper ps3 version would have required more budget, and delayed both versions. Yea PS3 owners got shafted.

Anyways, this game matches/beats Uncharted 2's score on IGN.. Why do people like this game so much? I really, really don't get it.... It's like Bioshock all over again.

Like I said before....Sega hasn't had any problems with the PS3 before during this generation. Their multiplats this gen have been equal, and from previews of games like AvP and Alpha Protocol, their set to be equal. And even things like Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk, which were cheap, quick cash ins on the movies, had equal performance across both consoles. So what makes Bayonetta different? Sega knows the PS3 hardware. They've made PS3 exclusives!! So why would they have to "expend more time and money" on Bayonetta....when they haven't had to do so not ONE other time this gen?

The same game hits two platforms with known issues on one due to being a late business decision port - I'd be puzzeled in the PS3 version didn't score less, and it's interesting how close some sites are scoring vs others.

I tried the demo even though I don't like this type of game, and found it playable enough on PS3, but clearly with the initial design and coding focusing purely on 360 the PS3 was always in trouble.

I would like to know if the PS3 version reviewed is the original code or the code tweaked by Sony themselves to improve it.

Seems this should have been a 360 exclusive that the publisher couldn't resist porting to increase sales potential and lower risk.

I think you're slightly confused.....Sega publishes alot of games that you think they actually developed. AvP is developed by Rebellion not Sega and the same goes for Alpha Protocol which is developed by Obsidian. Bayonetta was developed by Platinum games...formerly Clover Games.

And my mistake...his name is Hideki Kamiya not Hideo. He also made Resident Evil 1 & 2 besides developing Okami, Devil May Cry and Viewtiful Joe.