An unbelievable article came out today - Ghostbusters on the PS3 vs 360 - note that PS3 has 8 cores  and is more powerful on paper. But then we have opinions like this where some “suit” at Sony says that they actually want to make it difficult for developers to make games for the PS3. The compilers that the PS3 uses took a long, long time to stabilise, vs the 360.

On the other hand, see what Apple did - it had to convince developers (and by developers I mean Micosoft’s Office on Mac and Adobe’s Photoshop Mac groups) to develop on transitioning hardware : from the PowerPC to Intel 32 bit to Intel 64 bit. They leveraged the power of the LLVM open source compiler architecture (which has now emerged as a competing, easier licensed, less obfuscated version of gcc). They made it easier for the compiler developers to create better compilers.

I own a PS3 and feel it is a really complete system - with user changeable HDDs, Linux supported, etc. but the management is really insane if it keeps on pulling such crap. Why would I want to buy a more expensive console which performs worse? And with Project Natal, Microsoft has gone to the next level with the 360.

Atleast they can open up PS2 backward compatibility for God’s sake - Shadow of the Colossus alone would be worth it.