What If PSN Was A Java Environment?
I’d settle for a scripting language, actually. But java is available, and looks like a more powerful option right now. The key point here is to make it very cheap to develop new games, both by increasing the pool of available qualified staff, and by reducing the development complexity – and by opening up PSN as a place where studios can throw up their experimental side projects. The secondary boost is that PSN could be turned from a boring, dull, holding-ground for tacky, cheap rip-off games that even the developers themselves clearly didn’t love – and the publishers certainly weren’t taking seriously – into a vibrant, exciting, community. That’s a scathing, extremist view of the PSN – but it’s one that I believe is becoming more endemic in the PS3-owning community, as the platform continues each year to fall short of their hopes and expectations. The Second Hand Market PS2 is a lucrative market for Sony today – the hardware is profitable, sells like hotcakes, and the software market i
