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Sorry, we’re late with this. Sony’s confirmed it’s to drop the price of PS3 dev kits by over 80 percent to $2,000, down from $10,240.
The move will be seen as hugely welcome, and give a clear indication that Sony’s about to make a serious effort to get PS3 moving this year.
We should have plenty mroe Sony news from GDC in the next few days.
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Redh3lix said:
Yaaay! a price cut!! …. oh wait…”dev kit” :’(
KillerDD said:
Which will eventually lead to a price cut for us =D.
Blerk said:
Why would a dev-kit price drop ever lead to a drop in the price of the consumer unit?
Anyway, that’s a hell of a drop. About time they did something to encourage developers to get stuck in. Anyone know how much Microsoft charge for theirs?
KillerDD said:
No_PUDding said:
Blerk shot you down from your cloud.
He’s like that.
No idea about the cost of a 360 devkit. But chnaces are they are pretty similar now, if the PS3 devkit was fucking $10,000 and is now $2,000.
Great great news, along with the Phyre engine news.
Blerk said:
I did a bit of searching to try and find out, but couldn’t get anything recent.
Apparently PS3 kits were nearly $20k to begin with and dropped to $10k in late 2007 to ‘price match the 360 kits’. So 360 kits might well still be $10k. Although not for long, I suspect.
No_PUDding said:
Still it’s great news for tiny/indie developers, and probably great news for Japanese developers more to the point.
$2,000, compared to $10,000, is kind of the right percentage of their market in comparison to NA. So yeah, it’s more appropriate.
Monk said:
sorry people, what the mean of dev kit ?
sorry for the disterbance : )
Blerk said:
The machines that the software companies buy in order to allow them to develop games for the PS3. They’re not for the likes of us.
No_PUDding said:
It’s a version of the console, which developers can manipulate, to test their code (game) on.
Monk said:
ooh !
you mean that if i want to develope any game, i must buy
10000$ to develope it in the PS3 ?!
I don`t now about that before!
Thanks Blerk : )
No_PUDding said:
Well now, if you want to, you can buy 5 PS3 devkits. Or just one for $2000.
Cort said:
Here comes the push………..?