Sony and Taiwanese government to provide PS3 development incentives

  • Posted July 7th, 2009 at 17:57 EDT by
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Sony is bringing Japanese and Western developers to Taiwan to offer assistance and tech support to developers who wish to work on PS3 titles there. The Taiwanese government is offering subsidies to those who take Sony up on the offer.

According to a Gamasutra translation of a press conference posted on Japanese site Nikkei, Sony is hoping to entice Taiwanese companies and develop a strong core of developers to make PS3 games for Taiwan and mainland China. Currently, China’s gaming market is mostly comprised of online PC titles, especially MMOs.

Sony also is having official lectures at Tatung University, a technology institute.

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  1. darksora | Rav_M

    • 6:04pm BST - July 7th, 2009

    Anything to expand the gaming industry is welcome :)

  2. TheStatic

    • 6:05pm BST - July 7th, 2009

    hm sounds good

    haha damm i tought i was first on this one hehe

  3. Dragonfly | Azurium

    • 6:19pm BST - July 7th, 2009

    many little cookies!

  4. Sryche22 | Sryche

    • 6:38pm BST - July 7th, 2009

     The Taiwanese President was just here in Honolulu...I should have chatted him up a bit about getting a move on with this. =)

  5. netherdragon | netherdragon

    • 7:37pm BST - July 7th, 2009

    this is good, i can see some gems coming out of tjhis, just you wait and see, twaneese are ingenios little buggers

  6. Sufi

    • 7:50pm BST - July 7th, 2009

    Oh wow...i just realized how important this news was. I saw it earlier and didn't read it carefully.

     

    This is almost as good as the news about Sony helping out devs to make exclusives on PSN. Only that this may actually have more potential to be something even better.

    Lots of potential to be had in China!

  7. KZ3000

    • 8:15pm BST - July 7th, 2009

    Good for them and good for us!

  8. airhead190 | airhead190

    • 8:21pm BST - July 7th, 2009

    theres a huge gaming market right there. Imagine if video games alone can civilize a country.

     

  9. ReZerO | ReZerO

    • 8:36pm BST - July 7th, 2009

    there is a large near untapped market there for games, i say good busniess move sony!

  10. Dragonfly | Azurium

    • 8:56pm BST - July 7th, 2009

    many little cookies and a friggin visari plant on home w00t!!!!

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