Electronic Arts is one of the leading developers for the next generation consoles. So CEO John Riccitiello talking about how much more difficult the PS3 is to develop for than the Xbox 360, isn’t good news for those loyal Playstation 3 owners.
Electronic Arts is one of the leading developers for the next generation consoles. So CEO John Riccitiello talking about how much more difficult the PS3 is to develop for than the Xbox 360, isn’t good news for those loyal Playstation 3 owners.
Last year we heard from Ubisoft about how Assassins Creed was being held up by the difficulties the company were having trying to develop the game for both the PS3 and Xbox 360. While it seems that was a memory and disc space issue, companies are still seeming to have problems getting to grasp with developing on the PS3.
The admittance from EA CEO John Riccitiello came during an investors conference call and was in response to a question posed by an unnamed industry analyst. He asked “Has the PS3 development process managed to catch up to the 360?”
According to PSX Extreme, Riccitiello replied:
“Not quite. There’s no doubt that Electronic Arts, along with many other publishers, had some challenges essentially meeting the technical specifications effectively on the PlayStation 3,”
“Games where we led development on the PS3 platform, like Burnout, which is doing very well on the market today, we had no issue at all.”
“But in circumstances where we either led with the Xbox 360 or ran parallel production, for the most part, we’re still experiencing some delay on the PS3. It’s a little bit more of a challenging development environment for us. It’s probably only a third of a problem for us as it was [nine months ago]. But there still remains some catching up to do on the engineering side for the PS3.”
This could just be EA having these kinds of problems, but it is one of the most experienced game developers in the industry, so I wouldn’t mind betting that the difficulty they are having developing for the Sony console, is more widespread than just EA.
Back in December, Jack Tretton, CEO of Sony, claimed that the PS3 was now the leading development platform for games. While that may be true in terms of the number of games currently in production for the system, if other developers are also having trouble with the technology, and clunkiness of the PS3 dev kits, then we can expect delays galore to keep occurring.
Source: http://blorge.com/2008/02/03/ea-claims-ps3-harder-to-develop-for-than-xbox-360/
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