Sony Cuts Price of PS3 Dev Kit by 80 Percent

[sheic99]

i can't help but think about that comment made about why the PS3 was so hard to develop for when seeing this.

Now all that needs to happen is the console price to be cut, then retailers cut the price of blu-ray films (they're the same price as new games where I am) and then I'll buy one

You've got to be shitting. Either your games are extremely cheap, or your movies are extremely expensive.

From your profile I can see your from america so your kinda lucky. In the UK most new games sell for £40, Blu-Ray films range from £25 (the ones nobody ever likes and ever picks up) to £30 (the average crap that gets shoveled into cinemas) then to £35 or even £40 for the films that are actually decent.

I just found a converter and Americans have to pay only 2 more dollars for a new game. It just seems like more.

 

[OneHP]

$2000 is still a lot more than $49, which is the price for the Microsoft XNA development kit you need to produce an indie game.

 

[Jumplion]

$2000 is still a lot more than $49, which is the price for the Microsoft XNA development kit you need to produce an indie game.

Well, the PS3 doesn't have something like XNA where anyone can make games, so obviously that 2000 bones are more directed towards mor profesional Indie developers. And I'm not sure how the XNA stuff works, but if it works anyway that I think it does, then it's prone to having alot of crap games.

Couple this with the fact that Sony are paying indie developers the budget they use [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/7.103753] (so long that it's exclusive of course), then this is an interesting comibnation of announcments.

 

[scotth266]

A good step by Sony. Happy to see some news that makes them seem human for once.

 

[Fernando Rodrigues]

Very good, considering that ps4 come to Brazil with retail price of $2000. (US dollars, not local Money). XNA is a crap. It was an abbandoned devkit, and personally only use is the Xbox controller interface for pc.