Why Sony Made PS3 Hard to Make Games For

I read an article recently where Sony said the PS3 was difficult to program on by design. it seemed like a ludicris thing to say and then I realized why they did it. When the PS3 was launched they were selling at a $200 loss, if good games had been easier to make for it it may have moved more units, costing Sony more, though increasing the user base. A couple years later the price of the tech inside a PS3 has dropped, Sony isn't losing money on it anymore. Developpers are getting used to programming for it and better games start to come out and people start picking up the console without Sony taking a huge hit.

If that is really what they did though I think they should have just stayed out another year since the PS2 continued to sell so well.

Actually programming for the PS3 isn't actually more difficult to code for, the main difference is that they don't take the standards from computers and thus making a port harder as you can't just copy most of the code like PC->XBox. There are a lot of libraries for the PS3 and to "master" them all is another hard aspect. Got a lot information from SCE Dev Net

Maybe this in conjuction with constant firmware upgrades are to detour piracy...at least for a little while

that wouldnt make much sence because the only money sony is getting is the royalty fee for each game and the profits made by the games published by sony, remember they loose with each console, it is just diferent than pc, unlike the xbox

that wouldnt make much sence because the only money sony is getting is the royalty fee for each game and the profits made by the games published by sony, remember they loose with each console, it is just diferent than pc, unlike the xbox

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