This can only be a good thing and with the christmas period coming up and the PS3's price drop the 360 doesnt stand a chance, woooppp asss

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.

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.

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.

It's an investment for the future and this cost saving is NOT aimed at large studios that budget up to $10M on a game. This will help small development or upstart houses get in the game with PS3 titles.

psn id: gingo... this is good now because more smaller developers can afford to make a game for ps3 and increase the game variety

does this also mean that the games will cost less in store too?

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.

i dont get it

 

PSN ID: Cory9807

Good move, this will encourage even third party company with a low budget to start thinking about developing games for the ps3

wow, so it was 20G for a dev kit....thats freaking crazy, thats a frack'n car!!!

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.

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.

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.