yeah that first part is nothing new use it all the time, usually on a olb blitz, but have one of them change to a zone, old stuff. The second part, the receiver spotlight is cool. I'm always tired of selecting the double coverage plays, they are so limited. I'm always playing safety anyways, so i usually end up doubling up on a receiver anyways, but this would be nice to call on the fly and i can play rover over the middle. In madden, playing as a D-linemen is for chumps.

Will Merrimen have a roid rage as one of his roles so I can end the career of yet another KC running back? Or maybe the entire Broncos offensive line can throw cut blocks on every play to mask their pathetic lack of size and talent. While we're at it, all Raiders game should have an increased police presence as well a homicidal stabbing or two.

Without these features Madden just doesn't feel realistic enough for me.

I remember buying FFIX on PSN because I was looking for swan song PS1 titles to enjoy on PS3

The cpu was hard to work for 3rd party, butt the cell was really powerfull and fast. It wasnt just pr or secret sauce. Uc2 and killzone 2 were amazing. But 3rd party want money. They also problems with the ram. Only first party was able to make huge jumps from first gen games to second gen. It was an expensive console but the tech was much more powefull at launch then this gen.

Wasn't this already established in 2006? Online Sony's first party studios took advantage of the cell.

" was PS3 hard to Develop for?"

Here we go again , they been saying this since mid 2006-2007ish . of course the CPU was hard to work with but the Cell was fast and powerful .
Next year Article : " was PS4 to Easy Develop for ?" slow day in office ?

P.S . over last few years N4G been Repeating same subject matter with Slightly different title, same old subject .
I would hate to be a writer busting my brain to come up with a New lie to draw readers interest end up repeating 2006 article again .

I would not say "hard" to develope... but it went against the norm and it also threatened a well established pc archetype of which many in the pc business was against. Not with ill intent, but to try and change the way digital hardware works... it is huge mountain to climb against a well established pc design.
A lot of third party studios kind of just did not try because they did not want to support the change.
It went beyond just gaming with the backlash of sonys cell design.
Sony has always tried to push innovation and sometimes they miss or go to far against the norm and fail. Like betamax vs VHS. Betamax was the superior hardware but they lost that battle as well.
It is why Microsoft created the competition. They were getting beat in so many ways and their monopoly was getting threatened by everyone. Apple, Google, etc etc. Microsoft had to fight back to try save their dwindling sales. Lose the hardware, you lose the os.