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Old 05-16-2006, 12:38 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by squarejawhero
So other than SD, I guess my article was ignored...
Aww, don't worry, you get attention from me too every now and then, puppy.

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Some publishers are unwilling to risk the high cost of developing for the new console until they know more about its capabilities, said Mike Hickey, a video-games analyst for Janco Partners in Greenwood Village, Colorado.

Development Costs

``Developing for Sony's platform is incrementally more complex than what you're looking at for Microsoft or Nintendo,'' Hickey said. ``With costs that could go over $25 million a game.

Developers need the design information to decide what new features they can put into games. The development kits give publishers a working version of the machine with similar processors, hard drives and other components. They are updated until Sony settles on a final version.

A particular concern, Jeffrey said, is that developers haven't been given Sony's new Cell processor for evaluation.
Doesn't seem smart and efficient of Sony, the way they've been managing their relations with developers. No wonder some of these devs have been complaining, Sony kept screwing around with them.

EDIT: Basically what's been happening is that, in the race to be the biggest and the best and thus snag more of the market share, both MS and Sony are scrambling to beef up their wares and in the process it ends up confusing the software people as to what they can actually feature in their games for each respective console, and how much money to invest. In the end they can't take advantage of either console's particular strengths because they don't know the final details about them, thus they don't wanna risk spending too much money on un-finalized specs. Which is passed down to us, the consumers, and we're disappointed or confused about which console to get because very few of the games out or coming out haven't taken advantage of those particular hardware strengths and features.
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