PlayStation-edu to lead way for future developers

  • Posted June 7th, 2008 at 12:28 EDT by
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Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) has officially revealed the PlayStation-edu initiative that will allow colleges and universities nationwide the opportunity to obtain PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable dev kits for their classroom setting.

The company is hoping this will lead to engineer and computer science students gaining a better understanding on how some of the hardware works, and that by giving individuals access to such technology while at school will help contribute to a more efficient workforce in the future.

"We expect this program to be a great tool to teach students about the PlayStation platforms," commented Mark Danks, Senior Manager, Developer Support, on the PlayStation blog.

Schools will be required to legally purchase these dev kits and will also be required to sign legal agreements in order to get their hands on the SDK, documentation, demo code, samples and web site support. There is no specified date as to when this will be released, but we're assuming it will launch with the Fall 2008 semester.

Stay tuned for further information as it breaks.

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  1. Staude | Staude

    • 12:30pm BST - June 7th, 2008
    • 1

    that is a great idea....tho it looks us only

  2. IWAO

    • 12:36pm BST - June 7th, 2008
    • 2

    If this comes to Denmark, so'll I go nuts, because I do also want to be a game-developer!!

  3. Emo-Mercenary | Clarky-132

    • 12:44pm BST - June 7th, 2008
    • 3

    O-M-G! Please please come to Ireland!

  4. Chronos

    • 12:54pm BST - June 7th, 2008
    • 4

    OH YEAH!!!!!!! I was waitng this for SOOO long!!!!!

  5. TobiUchiha | TobiUchiha

    • 1:15pm BST - June 7th, 2008
    • 5

    Come to England or Sony I will HUNT YOU DOWN

  6. Alpha2

    • 1:29pm BST - June 7th, 2008
    • 6

    I would imagine this depends more on the school itself, if they dont go in for the course and buy the devkits you cant get it at all, but if your school is in a nother country and decideds to give it a shot they'd simply have to pay the money and signe the nessesary agreements for the equipment.

  7. dfontes1188 | dfontes1188

    • 2:16pm BST - June 7th, 2008
    • 7

    Hopefully it is not a lot of money for the schools to buy

  8. Alti | Alti

    • 2:51pm BST - June 7th, 2008
    • 8

    the art institute of tampa BETTER get this. or I'm leaving.

  9. Sniperwithacause | Sniperwithacause

    • 3:12pm BST - June 7th, 2008
    • 9

    It would all depend on the size of the classes they are wanting to teach with them.  They would either have to buy  at least  ten kits if they were going to do group assignments.  or maybe up to 30 if they are doing individual assignments.  It really is a great idea to do. Wish that was available when I was still in high school, maybe I would have wnet to college.

  10. evilmonkey501 | evilmonkey501

    • 3:45pm BST - June 7th, 2008
    • 10

    dont dev kits cost  a hundred grand?

  11. Uncool | Admodistrator

    • 5:27pm BST - June 7th, 2008
    • 11

    I think they are doing this in order to essentially in the future come up with a similar platform like that in XNA game development so that more people become potential 3rd party developers in the future.

  12. Denali2 | NEJI64

    • 5:44pm BST - June 7th, 2008
    • 12

    nice thing to do. Sony looking toward the future be getting up coming game dev. use to working with cell technology. That will lead to more exclusive games and accessories. oh well I'm only 26 i might just go back to school

  13. TekkenLord | HitMan00

    • 6:44pm BST - June 7th, 2008
    • 13

    this is really good, now i can get my idea up and going

     

  14. gingo | gingo

    • 8:59pm BST - June 7th, 2008
    • 14

    psn id: gingo.... these need to be used more and more to help develop future skills for jobs in gaming hopefully they dont charge extortionate prices for them

  15. InfernoReaper | GrimDarkling

    • 1:54am BST - June 8th, 2008
    • 15

    Great idea, but the PS2 has just about hit the end of the road.  I guess it would be nice to see how a console actually works though.

  16. Walo

    • 2:15am BST - June 8th, 2008
    • 16

    Thinking that I started a Computer Science mayor but never finished it because of my job... if some college here buys any dev kits I might consider studying again

  17. RuiyJR | Tseska_922

    • 6:35am BST - June 8th, 2008
    • 17

    awesome!

  18. Solrac | Solrac7688

    • 8:36am BST - June 8th, 2008
    • 18

    Thats awsome but which schools will be gaining these dev kits

  19. Walo

    • 12:12pm BST - June 8th, 2008
    • 19

    @Solrack Basically any college that decides on buying those, tho I think that the ones that got any game programing mayors will be the main buyers

  20. kflashin | KFLASHIN

    • 4:54pm BST - June 8th, 2008
    • 20

    Should have thought about this before the launch of the PS3

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