Was the code in this game optimized for a PS3?

[Betelgeuzah]

Well-well look. I already told you: I deal with the god damn customers so the engineers don't have to. I have people skills; I am good at dealing with people. Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?

What are you even talking about? Good for you.

Actually he (Yoshi) has commented several times on both (the lack of communication between departments AND the player base) aside from the notorious nature of Japanese companies.

And you think this is because Japanese developers are artists instead of engineers? Goddamn.

As if it didn't have anything to do with the culture differences, nope. Artists are close minded, engineers are communicative. That's how it must be. "Japanese are not xenophobic and closed as a culture while Americans aren't good at PR". You can even see that this isn't the case with our community reps (who are engineers, no doubt!). The JP reps speak less and are more formal, the U.S reps communicate a lot more often.