wow that was an utterly futile rant about something that was said like......2 years ago. It's obvious that it's worked though, look at the 360, it's "easy to develop for" and it's basically at it's peak with the games that are out lately, even though it surprisingly can't handle them all that well what with all the glitches and problems with things like Fable II and Gears of War 2. The PS3 is alot like the PS2 in the way that it's not easy to find every possibility of engine design, Killzone 2 is one of the most stunning technical acheivements of this console generation and so is Uncharted (despite it being a first year title, and it still looks, plays, and runs better than 3/4 of the games coming out now anyway) but as with both games the developers were only on their first try with the console, Guerrilla and Naughty Dog have both said that there's a lot more to the PS3 to be unlocked and considering that God Of War 3, Heavy Rain and Uncharted 2 are slated to come out this year and look to be even more stunning technical acheivements in their own right, and we haven't even gotten to hear about Team ICO's game which will probably trump everything. Are most developers too fucking lazy to actually try developing?! It seems some people have just gotten lathargic with the advent of casual games and they just want to use pre-existing software or middleware like UE3 to make all their games without actually developing an optimised engine for the platform.
I actually never understood after playing a bunch of 360 games why there was the aura around it of it being so amazing, the controller's ok, but I don't think it's superior in anyway to the ps3 controller they're both just as flawed as each other (The dualshock 3/sixaxis has badly made triggers, doesn't conform to the hands quite that well and has the convex analog sticks, The 360 controller has a terrible d-pad, awful clicker thingies on it's shoulders, convex buttons and it's size/weight) and it's all down to opinion and taste so don't start saying that it's superior design. On the game side, I think there are some great games that are on it but it'll hit the roof development-wise so quickly and then Microsoft will be expected to make something better and that something better will have to be as hard as the PS3 because the more advanced the tech is the harder it is to find ways to make it easy to develop for. It's not so much that the PS3 is harder to develop for, it's more that developers need to figure out ways of making it easy to develop for