PS3 development is complex. So?

Europe-Nintendo writes "We’ve all heard the excuse before; "The PS3 is too difficult to develop for." One thing Sony’s Playstation 3 is well-known for is its powerful hardware, which boasts (among other things) a Blu-ray disc format and a Cell Microprocessor as its CPU. For the 90% of you that don’t know what all that means, all you need to know is that it is very, very powerful.

But while that’s all well and good, there’s also a downside to it. The PS3 is complex – more complex than every other console currently on the market. Some developing companies have had problems developing games for the PS3, and have even gone so far as to not develop for it altogether. In the past, game consoles have had the same problems with game development (the Sega Saturn comes to mind), but is this really the same case with the PS3? No, it’s not."