>> One thing that's always confused me: Why does Sega, Sony or Nintendo
>> keep info from third party devs? I've never understood the logic in
>> this. Are they afraid that people will take these new programming
>> techniques and try to implement them on rival systems, or they simply
>> just want their in-house titles to always look the best? If I were
>> Sega, I'd have given third party devs every bit of info I had, because
>> people don't look at it like "Hey that game looks way better than
>> anything Sega has done on the system", they look at it as "Hey, that
>> game looks better than anything on any system!".

>
> I'm not trying to disagree, but one of the things that kept me off the
> Playstation for the longest time was just the fact that the system
> didn't seem to have very strong 1st-party support. I eventually saw
> the flaw in that logic, but it sure took me a while...