The Historian

In one of the most shocking and bizarre comments ever made by a company chief, Hirai, the brains behind the entire PlayStation empire, explained to the Official PlayStation Magazine in its February issue that Sony didn’t want to make it easy on developers.

"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.

So let me get this straight.. It is hard to develop for .. on purpose? You want your console system to succeed and then you make it difficult to bring games to it. Wouldn’t letting “anyone take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do” be an advantage? Open it up to the Independent developers, see what they can do. XNA is sucessful because they tried to make it easy to develop for the Xbox 360.

Sony, you have officially convinced me to not Purchase a PS3 or a PSP(2) any time in the near future. With Final Fantasy Coming to the 360 and frankly only one game that remotely looks interesting, Little Big Planet, I can honestly say that there is no compelling reason to invest in your hardware…

Or your philosophy.

Via: The Digital Home – CNET News