Why has the Sony PlayStation 3 been so difficult to develop games? | MVG

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A deep dive into the Cell BE processor on the Sony PlayStation 3 console, and why the developers did not like to develop games for the system despite its powerful architecture.

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32 Comments

  1. M AJanuary 13, 2020 at 6:37 AM

    What about games from sony computer entertainment like GOW or MGS? They should presumably be the most efficient on playstation.

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  2. 주원January 13, 2020 at 6:37 AM

    Gabe newel only said it was difficult because it has a 3

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  3. EdJanuary 13, 2020 at 6:37 AM

    I’ve never understood computer science and how to read code.

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  4. Split BladeJanuary 13, 2020 at 6:37 AM

    PC for life uwu

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  5. Amaury JacquotJanuary 13, 2020 at 6:37 AM

    in fact, the real issue is that those game developers are bad programmers.
    they still can't seem to figure out multithreaded code in PC games...

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  6. BazillionJanuary 13, 2020 at 6:37 AM

    6:19 Bayonetta!

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  7. BrendenJanuary 13, 2020 at 6:37 AM

    As a homosexual i greatly appreciate you not making fun of homosexuals in this video

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  8. Seth WellingtonJanuary 13, 2020 at 6:37 AM

    2:49 what game is that

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  9. tentimesfulJanuary 13, 2020 at 6:37 AM

    the worst thing was the controller it had my fingers falling of the left and right trigger....

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  10. Robert KellyJanuary 13, 2020 at 6:37 AM

    SPEs of the Cell Processor is hard to program for.

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  11. Danny EagleJanuary 13, 2020 at 6:37 AM

    PS3 was amazing at some wierd machine learning workloads with the Linux toolkit sony provided for some time.
    Also I feel like sony fucked up by leaving developers to port their engines from the ground up to the Cell arch instead of providing some sane framework. Oh well.

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  12. The Only Gordan FreemanJanuary 13, 2020 at 6:37 AM

    Aaah the good old days no psplus bullshit

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  13. Jasmine JohnstonJanuary 13, 2020 at 6:37 AM

    This sucks considering that the Net Yaroze, a special edition PlayStation 1 system, was really EASY to develop games for. Cadiccarus has one

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  14. EnEm GeeJanuary 13, 2020 at 6:37 AM

    This was like 16 wheeler vs 4 wheel AWD pickup truck. Both have different use cases and the overhead of running a 16 wheeler to transport a washer/dryer to your house is much higher and better done with a pickup truck.

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  15. Afif ZakiJanuary 13, 2020 at 6:37 AM

    Homework: XBOX 360
    Test: PS3

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  16. FATTY DOODOOJanuary 13, 2020 at 6:37 AM

    I love how this dude breaks down no difference between the 360 and ps3 overall ... yet everyone says the ps3 was far superior its like telling everyone the world is round and yet refuse to believe it this is maddening

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  17. mk ultra agentJanuary 13, 2020 at 6:37 AM

    ps triple is still the best console ever made

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  18. ephoenix7January 13, 2020 at 6:37 AM

    3:58 what game is that?

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  19. Shaun CameronJanuary 13, 2020 at 6:37 AM

    0:43


    The PS3 was great if you were a Sony-owned studio. Not so much if you were a multiplatform 3rd-party developer.

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  20. MonoPalisaJanuary 13, 2020 at 6:37 AM

    11:11 What's that game?

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  21. JeremyJanuary 13, 2020 at 6:37 AM

    But which one red ringed and basically bricked itself over and over again? ;)

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  22. Isomer MashupsJanuary 13, 2020 at 6:37 AM

    Don't blame yourself for changing the architecture that's standard across other platforms; blame the developers for having reasonable expectations. lol.

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  23. Sascha SJanuary 13, 2020 at 6:37 AM

    I love PS3 today . I remember developers calling Ps3 a alien hardware back in 2007 :)

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  24. Aditya BhardwajJanuary 13, 2020 at 6:37 AM

    Because the ps2 was wildly successful and they thought that making the ps3 difficult to develop for would take time away from devs, so that they wouldn’t develop Xbox 360 ports in time, but in the end, the opposite happened with most devs preferring to develop for the Xbox

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  25. AurealJanuary 13, 2020 at 6:37 AM

    7:23 this is false. Hardware interfacing, or context setup code, is usually hidden from application developers. They use wrappers and APIs that perform macro operations, such as initialization. They wouldn't even need to call an "init()" function. If anyone complained about complexity, then I'm sure its was much more than just some threading, event queue stuff that needed to be taken care of

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  26. iHPandaJanuary 13, 2020 at 6:37 AM

    Playing Skyrim without losing your shit was a rite of passage.

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  27. AerohkJanuary 13, 2020 at 6:37 AM

    Wait, is this a re-upload?

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  28. kvdrJanuary 13, 2020 at 6:37 AM

    example you've shown is non-sense

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  29. Asakura SamuelJanuary 13, 2020 at 6:37 AM

    - Gabe Newel: the PS3 is a complex garbage shit.
    - Naughty Dog: Hold my devs.
    - Santa Monica: I understand why you haven't released Half Life 3 yet, your devs aren't talented enough...
    :D :D :D

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  30. Julian LaiJanuary 13, 2020 at 6:37 AM

    PC is the best.

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  31. real bobJanuary 13, 2020 at 6:37 AM

    The Dualshock 3 was trash, it broke in weeks and had a "sweaty" texture.

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  32. kkg TJanuary 13, 2020 at 6:37 AM

    That's why pc gaming is simply the best.

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