Nintendo Press Conference: Stream & Discussion

[Dyne]

On the SDK thing - holy mother of god. PS3 is the most frustrating dev kit ever.

Xbox SDK is great. PiX, which monitors framerate and performance, Watson, which logs game code useful for developers, DVD emulation, video capturing, and hell, debug menus come up right away. You load your build on to the xbox's developer hard drive, and you play it.

PS3 SDK is completely different. Performance stuff? Code that **** yourself. DVD emulation? Hah, you can either run a build off a computer hard drive, or burn a DVD every time, which gets costly. Debug menus? They take 10 seconds to come up, because it's not stored locally. Screenshots? Video? No. Sony hasn't even bothered.

The only thing the PS3 SDK has going for it is the logging software, and that's about as standard as it gets.

It has some powerful gears in there, but damn, there's no way anyone can expect to develop easily with that thing.