Soo... there's still a lot of console fanboyism going around even now about this generation, and it's hard to be objective about the hardware without getting yelled down by people shrieking "Cell! Cell! Cell!", but, based on the games that have come out, how they compare with the XBox 360, the hype, and all the breakdowns I've read about how the internals of the PS3 work, basically Gaben here is all but objectively correct. The PS3 is a very poorly balanced machine; it is full of bits and pieces that have a lot of power, but it's virtually impossible to actually hook them all up to each other and have them all firing at full power at the same time. All the powerful parts are crippled by lack of bandwidth to move data in or out of them.
None of this looks like bitterness or permanent anger, so if Sony builds a better-engineering PS4, with a focus on real performance over benchmarks and marketing hype, there's nothing in that rant that would preclude working with them. I hope Sony has people internally who understand the PS3 to be less than the sparkling gem of design that the marketing department wanted people to think it was.
Soo... there's still a lot of console fanboyism going around even now about this generation, and it's hard to be objective about the hardware without getting yelled down by people shrieking "Cell! Cell! Cell!", but, based on the games that have come out, how they compare with the XBox 360, the hype, and all the breakdowns I've read about how the internals of the PS3 work, basically Gaben here is all but objectively correct. The PS3 is a very poorly balanced machine; it is full of bits and pieces that have a lot of power, but it's virtually impossible to actually hook them all up to each other and have them all firing at full power at the same time. All the powerful parts are crippled by lack of bandwidth to move data in or out of them.
None of this looks like bitterness or permanent anger, so if Sony builds a better-engineering PS4, with a focus on real performance over benchmarks and marketing hype, there's nothing in that rant that would preclude working with them. I hope Sony has people internally who understand the PS3 to be less than the sparkling gem of design that the marketing department wanted people to think it was.