Sony Makes It Hard To Develop For the PS3 On Purpose 616
adeelarshad82 writes "CNet reports on a bizarre comment from Sony's Computer Entertainment CEO in response to complaints from developers on how hard it is to develop games for the Playstation 3. '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?' Given that games heavily drive console sales, and the fact that the PS3 is already 8 million units behind the Xbox 360, I think making a developer's job harder is the last thing Sony needs."
Straight from the OSS fanboi playbook (Score:5, Funny)
"We don't want stupid people using our stuff"
Brilliant! (Score:5, Funny)
1. Develop console containing pretty cool hardware.
2. Make it hard to develop, while Microsoft and Nintendo have the opposite goal.
3. In the early years of the console, have many fewer good games than XBox360 does. So constantly be at risk of not reaching critical mass.
4. ???
5. Profit!
Sounds like Sony turned this [break.com] into a SDK philosophy.
Re:Let darwin decide? (Score:5, Funny)
Wow. That's a mighty impressive qualification. ;)
Other coverage (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, I saw a video about this recently: Sony Releases New Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn't Fucking Work [theonion.com]
Re:How do I program? (Score:1, Funny)
Sacrifice your first born to the Sony CEO.
Re:Forth (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Reverse Conspiracy Theory (Score:3, Funny)
To me "early" means 3.0, the first version of Windows that had a serious feature set, and that was widely adopted. But I believe that the code example I was talking about goes back to 2.0 at least.
I did once glance at the 1.0 version of Petzold's book. Didn't check out the "hello world" example, but it's interesting to note that in this version, Windows is described as a "Presentation Manager" for PC-DOS! This fits in with the original joint Microsoft-IBM plan to abandon DOS once a real OS had been created. (In OS/2, the "Presentation Manager" is the GUI subsystem.) So perhaps the 1.0 feature set reflects the assumption that Windows was just lipstick on a pig, not the complete new animal.
Re:Call him Monkey Boy all you want (Score:3, Funny)
"Let say I sell plants."
I would have preferred a car analogy. It would have not been as complex to develop your point and you'd have done it with fewer words.