Sony kicked 'yo ass foo!

[Jonathan Meer]

You are wrong. I don't mean to be rude, but it is senseless. Sony claims they made it difficult so the full potential of the machine couldn't be exploited early on. They deliberately made it difficult to code for.

Do you know how stupid that sounds?

It's not amateurism. It's arrogance. Like when the consoles first launched and Sony claimed they would conquer the market and there wouldn't be any competition within months. And then fucked it all up, banking on the fact that their prestige and success with the PS2 would carry them through and attract all the 3rd party devs.

It isn't senseless though.

Again, bear with me here, as I don't know what I'm talking about. I'll admit that right now. But I do think I can make educated guesses.

Let's assume that the complication is solely because of the reason you gave (I'd be interested in reading a transcript of that press conference, btw). By doing this, developers will make in-roads into the system, whereby it is, with every competent new game, stretched further; constantly improving. This way, the market is kept excited with every passing game, because, in an ideal way (which, of course, does not correspond EXACTLY with actuality), every new game would be better than the last. From a business standpoint, this makes sense.

What doesn't make sense is admitting it. That's a bit odd.

As far as your 'percentages of people who buy 'x'', that's... horribly opinionated. I'm not even going to touch that one.

No, I'm not trying to be opinionated. Just, from what I know of 360 owners and PS3 owners, PS3 owners tend to be more 'hardcore and spending'. 360 is somewhat more casual than PS3. That doesn't mean there aren't hardcore games on the 360 (of course there are), and it doesn't mean there isn't a casual market on the PS3 (of course there is).

Again, I don't have a statistic to back up that claim, but it is an educated guess, and I would be surprised if it was wrong.

Finally, I should hope that the PS3 can be pushed harder than the 360. It's got immensely better hardware. Not that you'd be able to tell when you actually load up a game on each and compare.

If you can't tell, then that is the fault of the developer. When I play Metal Gear Solid 4 in HD, and then play Gears of War 2 in HD, there is a noticeable difference in quality.