If you're wondering what actual game developers think of the PS3, Next Generation has a pretty fascinating Q&A with seven devs — Randy Pritchford of Gearbox Software, Brad Foxhoven of Titan Productions, Chris Charla from Foundation 9, Loren Hillberg of Macrovision, Bill Gardener from Eidos and a couple other guys — asking them for their impressions on the PS3s launch, specs and strategy.

It's an interesting read. Personally, we were fascinated by this completely bizarre prediction from Pritchford:

I still hold onto my prediction from a couple years back that, eventually, Sony will be licensing the video game operating system software from Microsoft. Perhaps Sony's experiences with their new online initiative will actually make that difficult-to-imagine step a little easier... If Microsoft can ever figure out how to gain traction and trust as a gaming platform in Japan, I believe that the two companies will rapidly desire to become partners instead of competitors. It sounds counter to expectations at first because we are so caught up in the competition, but I assure you that I could explain why the concept of an eventual partnership between Sony and Microsoft has merit.

... yet doesn't! What do you think? Microsoft and Sony to be online bed buddies in the near future?

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