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id Software co-founder and chief software architect John Carmack has said that the PS3 has more raw performance than the Xbox 360, but it does come at a cost: it’s harder to develop for.
“Now the PS3 in particular, and this has been passed over many times over the years, but the core architectural decisions of having the cell processors versus additional symmetric processors makes life more difficult, unquestionably it’s harder to develop for those there,” Carmack told Nowgamer. “You have to use a separate tool chain, the debugging is crappier, and all this. The upside of that is, there is more raw performance for computing there than there is on 360.”
Still, despite being hard to develop for it’s not like the days of working on the SEGA Saturn or the PS2.
“The PS3 is still far and away better than anything else that’s ever been made… except maybe the 360,” he added. “It’s a great time to be a developer. It’s not like working with the SEGA Saturn or the PS2, where these are really kind of quirky, cranky, architectures that are not, well, architected, I would say.”
