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Itagaki Says PS3 Easier To Develop For Than Famicom
Itagaki Says PS3 Easier To Develop For Than Famicom
1UP - August 27, 2008
Submitted by noobie (468) at 1:24AM PST on August 28, 2008
the former Dead or Alive designer also dispels the notion that the PS3 is too difficult to develop for:
"One more thing I would add is that I don't think that developing for the PS3 is hard at all. It was much harder developing for the Famicom. It's true. I mean, give someone who's developing for the PS3 a Famicom and see if they can make a game for it. They won't be able to. Yeah, that'll prove it. We'll bet a drink on it.
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2sagexsdx posted on PLAYSTATION 3 (PS3) at 5:14AM PST on August 28, 2008. RE: Itagaki Says PS3 Easier To Develop For Than Famicom@noobie,
i kind of wish he went into more detail on this quote. he says it is more difficult to dev on famicom than ps3 but in what aspect?
personally as a software developer, i feel like he might have meant that even though the PS3 has a very complicated processor architecture (multi-threaded, multi-proc/core dev is tougher than single), the famicom was difficult because of the limitations of memory and capabilities.
if you look at software these days, it's huge. but software use to only be a couple kb of memory. people always talk about the "art of programming" being gone now due to abundant memory and processor speeds making developers lazy and not requiring optimization. so i feel that's what he meant.
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5noobie posted on PLAYSTATION 3 (PS3) at 1:24AM PST on August 28, 2008. Article: Itagaki Says PS3 Easier To Develop For Than Famicomthe former Dead or Alive designer also dispels the notion that the PS3 is too difficult to develop for: "One more thing I would add is that I don't think that developing for the PS3 is hard at all. It was much harder developing for the Famicom. It's true. I mean, give someone who's developing for the PS3 a Famicom and see if they can make a game for it. They won't be able to. Yeah, that'll prove it. We'll bet a drink on it.[ Oracle ] [ Level 20 ] [ Rank: 468 ]
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I also heard that you have to use Assembler language, one of the hardest programming language in the world (since it is half machine language, half programming language) to program on Famicom. I could be wrong about this assembler thing, but if it is true, I am sure that assembler is harder than any other language. Even COBOL or fortran is much easier than assembler (based on my own experience).