• SalCan

    I’ve been curious about how big on an issue this really is. I mean, $20k is a lot of money for the average person, but it you are developing a video game, it’s just a drop in the bucket right?

  • linuxnub

    Why $10250? It’s not half the cost but more like a 48.75% reduction in price. If Sony is claiming to halving the cost of the kit, then they’re misleading people.

  • Matthew

    It soon adds up because you can’t just make do with one dev kit if you are doing a larger project. Even a mid-size project has at least 3-6 programmers all of whom will need kit. You also need test kits (slightly cheaper) so your Quality Assurance department can test the game.

    On a small project where you only have one programmer the cost is bigger because your budget is smaller. It’s much cheaper to choose the Wii or Playstation 2 where you have a bigger audience and much lower initial costs – that’s why you are seeing a lot of smaller studios deciding to develop Wii titles.