Tachikoma said:
Nobody has ever done that before?, uh.. hate to break it to you but back when i first started working as a developer, the Katana devkit we had was given to use for free from Sega, Sony gave away Yaroze to hundreds of people who initially bought it by never actually cashing the cheques for the hardware, as well as giving hundreds of units to universities - Sony have repeated this with the Orbis development kits by basically providing the SDK and development hardware to smaller development teams and indie developers for free to create software on, with includes extensive software and development libraries, Microsoft also provides an extensive software library to development teams free of charge. Also, Nintendo do provide these tools, but selective to the project, they don't just say "heres a bunch of software and licenses you might not even use". Rose tinted glasses?, Yup. |
Nothing rose-tinted here mate. Nintendo are supplying licences for all of that software and middleware to all developers as far as I'm aware regardless of what project they're working on. That's the whole point of them doing it, they're giving developers the tools to handle whatever project they need either current or in the future. The most important of which is MULTI, although that deal is a relatively later addition.
