Atari founder and industry legend Nolan Bushnell had some pretty unkind things to say about the PS3 and Sony in general in a recently posted interview over at Red Herring. In the interview, which mainly deals with his restaurant endeavors, Bushnell forecasts the PS3's doom.

I think Sony shot themselves in the foot... there is a high probability [they] will fail. The price point is probably unsustainable. For years and years Sony has been a very difficult company to deal with from a developer standpoint. They could get away with their arrogance and capriciousness because they had an installed base. They have also historically had horrible software tools. You compare that to the Xbox 360 with really great authoring tools [and] additional revenue streams from Xbox live... a first party developer would be an idiot to develop for Sony first and not the 360. People don't buy hardware, they buy software.

Ouch. A shining endorsement of the 360 and a stunning condemnation of the PS3 from one of the founding fathers of gaming. Will Sony prove him wrong? Michael Fahey

Atari Founder Likes Xbox360, Disses PS3 [Red Herring]