Sony reduces price of PS3 development kits
- Posted November 19th, 2007 at 06:56 EDT by Mike Harradence
- 14 Comments
Sony Corp. has lowered the price of its PlayStation 3 development kits by half in an effort to ''contribute to cost-saving measures of the development community", reports website Develop.
The company announced that the price of the PS3 SDK would be cut to USD 10, 250 in North America, JPY 950,000 in Japan and EUR 7,500 in Europe.
In addition, several improvements will also be implemented via the firm’s UK-based subsidiary SN Systems, of which the PS3 SDK. ProDG, SN-DBS, and SN Linker have already been integrated. The SN Compiler will be available for developers next month.
Speaking in an official statement, Sony stated, "As more and more new titles are developed for the PS3 format, SCEI will significantly reduce the price of the Reference Tool in order to contribute to the cost saving measures of the development community.”
“Along with this boost to the PS3 game development environment, SCEI will further reinforce its support system to the development community, and continue to further expand the PS3 platform."
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Wintee |
bluedotred- 8:02am GMT - November 19th, 2007
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Um, what's this got to do with the Christmas price drop?
It will be years before anything developed now will be visible to the consumer. And as far as games go, the cost of the dev kit isn't really going to sway developers over which platform to choose. It's a small amount of cash compared to the ROI these companies are pumping in.
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bucko |
BuckoDessie- 8:45am GMT - November 19th, 2007
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What was the original price of the Dev Kits? Do the Debug kits get a cut as well.
richkaos this is about development and not the actual consoles and nothing to do with the 360, it takes a very long time to develop a quality game release from 6 months to 3 years (look how long MGS4 is taking to develop but it's a quality game) depending how many people you have on your team and your budget and previous experience and you won't see that during the Xmas period from this price cut.
It might help speed up development on current projects but I'm sure the teams already have what they need to develop there games..
If only it was half the cut price then the average home user could buy one legally and create PStore stuff that would be amazing because it wouldn't be a cut down version like XNA on the 360.
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hibble
- 9:11am GMT - November 19th, 2007
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big title game buget is $10million +
So the fact that the dev kit is now ~$10,000 will make no difrence. the fact that the software is being upgraded may as it will mean that one can speed up the development cycle.(not by much) It will also be 6-12 months befor any game will be relesed made on these so hopfuly it will inprove things for next christmas.
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Uncool |
Admodistrator- 2:37pm GMT - November 19th, 2007
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I think the development community has also gotten its fair share of flack for addressing that it was very expensive to develop a PS3. With this move, more developers can be confident on the IP's they create and Sony will also benefit with an increase amount of 3rd party support.
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Mattchewie |
Mattchewie- 3:32pm GMT - November 19th, 2007
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wow, so it was 20G for a dev kit....thats freaking crazy, thats a frack'n car!!!
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tom ass
- 4:44pm GMT - November 19th, 2007
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how many dev kits do the average developers use is my question. my guess would be 1 for each person. makes sense. so if a new team of developers come along and order 20 kits theyre saving 200 G's. I don't care how much money you have/earn thats a huge difference.
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The Cleaner
- 3:37am GMT - November 20th, 2007
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Anything to attract some games to PS3 is good. Over the past year or two we have had to put up with the biggest gaming drought in playstation history.
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Vaughn |
undacovabrothe- 7:26pm GMT - November 20th, 2007
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Yea this is for the smaller gaming companies who have trouble funding for the time it takes to make a ps3 game. Cutting the time saves alot of PRICELESS time and money for devs and makes them happier and influences them to make more games. This is a step in the right direction for SONY. Also this could help some of the crappy ports become more equal that we recieve.
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