Yoshida: "Crap 3rd Party Support Was Down To Miscalculation"

Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida has shared his view on why the PS3 launch had such lacklustre support from third party developers:

“They must have been planning, thinking they have enough time, to port the second game to PS3 and release at the same time with the same quality"

“So they massively underestimated the effort that was needed to re-architect the game to properly take advantage of the PS3’s multi-core architecture.”

“But it’s impossible to bring the level of support that we feel is important for the PlayStation 3 platform without the third parties’ continued support. That was the miscalculation by both us, and from third parties.”

In short, you can't make a game for both systems when working with PS3, you have to make it for the PS3 then put it across other systems. Kinda... Full interview with Yoshida at the source.

Source: GamesIndustry