Topic: My two cents: Revolution will have more third-party support than PS3. (No, I'm not crazy.)

[Arbok]

Quote
Originally posted by: Stu L Tissimus
Don't Hate's correct. Frankly, both handhelds have had an extremely bad start.

And Gamebasher, if you want your friend to get a DS, tell him that there's a good possibility of Rare developing Perfect Dark DS.

Or just let him play Duel Strike for 20 minutes and see what happens...

[NotSoStu]

Well, that's true too. That game was made for DS, and the execution was more or less perfect.

[Gamebasher]

Ok, I will tell him that Perfect Dark will land on DS soon.

Still, he is such a die-hard Sony fan, that I really think that the only way to ever get him to play on DS will be by giving him one for free! I think people like him suffer from a disease called "fear of not being cool in the allseeing eyes of my Sony friends" ! I guess it would take them just suddenly going out and buying a DS, before he would ever do the same thing. Only then would he suddenly speak in positive terms about Nintendo and DS. Maybe I should tell him that Rare once belonged to Nintendo and that the previous Perfect Dark game was launched on the N64!! Wonder what he will say then!  

[NobleXenon54]

"PlayStation 3's Developer Support Drops Faster Than GameCube's Did"

Quote
There have been rumors recently, particularly among a network of German, Dutch, and Japanese websites, that the PlayStation 3 is losing developer support. A Dutch website has been quoted as saying that the PlayStation 3's developer support is dropping faster than the Nintendo GameCube's did. Several developers have outright stated a preference for Microsoft's new console, the Xbox 360.

While this may sound alarming to some, it seems similar to the debacle when the PlayStation 2 came out; at the time of its release, it was criticized for being notoriously difficult to design for, yet it became the most popular console in this last generation of systems. Will the PlayStation 3 be a reenactment of this, or is Sony on the way out of the number 1 slot in the video game industry? Only time will tell.

Sega Cancels Condemned For PS3

Altus Cancels Unidentified Games.  

[Bill Aurion]

Not exactly confirmation, but one would think the games with the highest dev costs would be dropped from Atlus' list (PSP/PS3)...I think we'll see more (smaller) devs leave later on once the full brunt of dev costs hit them in their prospective gobs...

[Avinash_Tyagi]

Sweet, sweet Karma.

[KDR_11k]

Kinda ironic considering the X360 seems to be harder to work with.

[wandering]

Sony losing 3rd party support? pshaw. When in history has huge name recognition and more powerful hardware not been enough to compensate for higher dev costs and hardware that's hard to work with?

Oh. Wait.  

[stevey]

Oh yeah!!! 3rd partys hate sony's controller. now nintendo need to get these 3rd party guy before ms and ea eat them.

[Artimus]

But ms ea are what win they know so they take buttons and nintendo knows less.

[Galford]

KDR, where did you hear the X360 was harder to work with?

Just curious...

[Artimus]

When has Microsoft ever made something easy to develop for?

[KDR_11k]

Galford: Mostly talk on Slashdot, from what I've heard the PS3's SPEs are rather easy to use (some say the compiler handles that) and since you still have only one CPU you can write singlethreaded code with SPE segments instead of writing a six-threaded game. MS doesn't seem to know how to do real MT, either. They suggest you split it into three threads for "game logic, graphics and maybe sound or netcode". That'll hardly use all of the system's power.