Remember when Valve boss Gabe Newell didn't want to make games for the PS3 because it was a "piece of shit" console? Newell and his team have since learned the Sony console's idiosyncracies and made peace with PS3 gamers, but it seems other developers are still having a hard time.

Marvin Donald, game director at Darksiders II developer Vigil, has complained that memory management on the PS3 has caused them quite a bit of grief. "It's a pain in the ass to work on," he told gaming news site Eurogamer. "Five years later, getting used to it? That means it's a pain in the ass."

Donald admits that he's not an engineer, but says that he hears about the problem "all the time". Apparently Vigil has been forced to do "wacky stuff" because of the way the PS3 manages memory.

"On the PlayStation 3, the assets go into different categories, and if one of those categories becomes too bloated it'll crash the system," Donald explained. "It's a little bit more sensitive on the PS3 in that regard. There are some things you just can't do, or you have to do differently. Yeah, it's a pain."

Granted, even Sony has admitted that the PS3 isn't the easiest platform to code for via a frankly hard to swallow piece of spin from Kaz Hirai, but there are a lot of other studios who have managed to make the console work for them. Some have even managed to do it without complaining. Airing your grievances about a system you're working with is all well and good, but that still worth thinking about.

Considering the improvements Sony is implementing in the PS Vita, however, studios like Vigil might have an easier time developing for the PS4. Maybe they should just wait for that console to come out.

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