I thought it was interesting that EA Tiburon, the section behind the recent NASCAR release (of all games), would call out Sony for poor tools this late in the game--almost a year after the PS3's release. Still, the quote, ripped from "PSX Extreme," shows that some developers are still quite unhappy with the state of development.
The truth is the PS3’s tools and the way it works just sucks. The truth is they are both virtually the same in terms of hardware when it comes to how powerful they are, maybe the PS3 has a few different things that makes it a bit more advance, and Sony has this idea that it is designed for optimal development but that’s a load of crap. In the last generation we would make the game for PS2 and then port it over to Xbox, but because Xbox was easier to develop for, we could actually enhance the title a little if we wanted to. The case with this generation is different, now we make the game for 360 first and then port it over to PS3, but we really don’t have the time to mess with how the PS3 works to really add to much more. It will change in the future, but for now it sucks.
The site I took the website goes on the call this whining because of a few other games (namely, an unnamed Crytek game [with no real development experience], Epic's UT 3, and Killzone 2). Currently, all three of those titles are single platform, even though UT 3 is a timed exclusive, which would make complaining about the system rather stupid because you would be stuck biting the hand that feeds you, especially prior to release.