Originally posted by Samwise
Hmm, that\'s funny. I could have sworn I read someone saying the opposite thing. Bet it\'s all hype though. I mean, who cared that PS2 was harder to develop for? It still got a buttload of games. I don\'t care about dev sob stories.
Yeah I ve heard that PS3 isnt as difficult to develop for as some are making it look like.
But if its true I think you might care about what developers say.When PS2 was released it had such a growing userbase that it was impossible to ignore.PS2 was the only console available for a whole year too.It was the only console developers could sell a backetload of copies on.
Now though XBOX360 will be released sooner, it already has a huge support from developers (as well as Japanese developers),its easy to develop for and there are many that care a lot about it.It is expected that it will sell a lot.
PS3 wont be alone and things are showing that performance wont be miles better from XBOX360\'s
Dont forget how Sega shot theirselves on the foot with the Sega Saturn.
They released an expensive hardware that made Sega struggle to cover their costs, they didnt have much flexibility on the console\'s price, it was extremely hard to develop on, not enough library tools available for it, saturn programming wasnt as familiar with c++ as PS1 was etc.
The result were revenues that didnt cover costs and costy game development and programming headaches made developers shift to PS1.
At the end Saturn gamers lost and they cared.
