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Itagaki: Easier to develop for PS3 than Famicom

by Justin McElroy on Aug 28th 2008 11:15AM

Can we make a formal request? Can Sony hire Itagaki to take Ken Kutaragi's old job? No, we know, Kaz technically has his old position, but Sony really needs someone out there saying crazy things about the PS3, and we think Itagaki's the man for the gig. Here's what he recently told 1UP: "I don't think that developing for the PS3 is hard at all. It was much harder developing for the Famicom. It's true. I mean, give someone who's developing for the PS3 a Famicom and see if they can make a game for it. They won't be able to. Yeah, that'll prove it. We'll bet a drink on it."

Bam! Crazy! Can you imagine getting that kind of stuff day in and day out from PS3 HQ? C'mon, Sony give that man whatever he wants ... and we do mean whatever.

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Reader Comments (79)

C'mon Jack...you know internet bloggers are way more smarter than stupid game developers with 20+ years experience.

Now Itagakisan...put up or shut up. Let's see what you can do with the Cell.

???

How is this even relevant to my post? I'm not even disagreeing, only remarking on how mundane an obvious the remark is. It isn't even news worthy. A game designer that is used to working with 5 GB of data on sysyems with heavy development support software is going to have a hard time using hardware that has kilobytes of storage and machine code.

This is like saying a Core2Quad runs Quake 3 faster than a Pentium 4. Just because John Carmack decides to say it doesn't make it an insightful comment. It is ALWAYS harder to do with less than you're used to, no matter the field of discussion.

"Unless you have programed on the NES/SNES or 360/PS3 you can't say anything."

Actually, people can say whatever the hell they want. It's this right of speech that makes sure idiots like Itagaki get called on their bs.

And you Jack, and you.

Uh, has this guy even made a NES game? Wikipedia says he started on the SNES and I can't find any NES games he would have worked on.

I wish this guy would shut up already.

He worked on Tecmo Bowl for NES if I'm not mistaken.

Wikipedia says he worked on the SNES version.

yah, cuz Wikipedia is always right...

If you have a source that shows that he worked on a NES game, you're welcome to post it. Otherwise, stop being dumb.

I personally think the guy is a bit of a tool for making comments like this. But prior when he was on tecmo he was bashing the ps3 and making negative comments about ninja gaiden sigma.

I think this guy is really more interested in money and fame. That maybe fine for some people but it could cause PR trouble for the company that decides to hire him.

If Team Ninja could figure it out i'm sure a AAA studio like Valve could if they really wanted to.

I have all the new systems so I can just get Valve's games on my 360,but seriously,Gabe sounds like a 5 year old being dragged in to get a shot at the doctor's office when he talks about the PS3.

Holy crap this interview is from MONTHS ago! I bet you already reported on it! I know Kotaku had. It's either super old or Itagaki is repeating that same "dogs barking" crap over and over.

I don't see what's crazy about what he's saying.

Now developers (and this is true for most modern devices, not just the ps3) can make use of better middleware, have tons of libraries and algorithms they can use, more memory, more processing power and more everything. The only thing I can think of they have more difficult to come up with is imagination (Old school developers needed that)

I mean, if you take that into account, it makes perfect sense. I don't understand why are you people calling him crazy, and as someone else said, you'd think he knows what he's talking about since he's been developing games for more than a decade.

Oh! I get it....

This is just the introduction to the opposites.

I'd love to put Itagaki and Jaffe in a room together and just listen in on the crazy ass conversation that follows. Crazy devs rule.

Throw is Molyneux and Dyack and it would be quite the show.

I think Jaffe would fight Dyack though. Also Itagaki would probably force everyone to meet at a strip club.

I heard Itakagi was hired to be the main character in the next Matrix series trio.

If they made a new Matrix series, I would commit seppuku.

But first, I would watch it just to see Itagaki pull off ninja-style moves. The irony there would more than make up for the fact that I would be about to ritually disembowel myself.

Funny enough, I can imagine Itakagi dodging bullets, don't you find the twins look similar to Itakagi but with white hair and white coats rather then black?

'Itakagi, you are the one, you will save Xion, Neo is....dead'

So apparently Valve can't make NES games

Interesting

Halfnes :)

I think this is only logical and could be said about any modern day console. There are more development tools out there for game designers than they were when the Famicom was the system to play. And just because something is old doesn't mean it's easy. I'd challenge anybody who writes PHP or Java to do a project in Assembly to prove that point.

Even when he's praising my console of choice this gen, I still can't stand this guy. That Famicom line is garbage.

Yeah, cause he's made a lot of PS3 games...

this guy is a complete douche whether he's pumping up the PS3 or not. what a tool.

Man, this guy is such a douche, he thinks he is the master of game development.

Sometime, I just can't stand the way he express of himself.

Fact: Famicon used to be programmed on assembly, and programming on assembly...... man, i rather kill myself before I go back there. I just can find respect on people who programm on assembly and tells its pretty easy, while programming on current gen consoles is all about OOP (object oriented programming)

Itagaki will bet a drink on anything.

Well it's pretty obvious, the PS3 is shittier than the NES, so it's easier to program.

/sarcasm

wow, traumatic experience. I scrolled past this article real fast, saw the long silky black hair and immediately thought hot chick... scrolled back up and now I can never quick scan blogs for hot chicks ever again! GROSS!

I don't think he's saying "Lets develop mass amounts of games on the PS3." I think what he's saying is..

"I'm Itagaki.. anything you can do, I can do better."

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