By using this site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Close
selnor1983 on 10 October 2013
Edit Thread
DerNebel said:
selnor1983 said:
MikeRox said:
selnor1983 said:
Theres a lot of smalltime devs in Sonys pocket at the moment. I don't think its a good idea moneyhatting these for PS4, but for Vita this could work.


They're not moneyhatting them. They're being very flexible to indie dev needs and trying to remove the needless barriers that have previously blocked indies from releasing their games on consoles. It's actually a very clever tactic as it's not costing Sony anything to bolster their release schedule.

As for the Vita love, well indies seem to do better on Vita than the other consoles, so it's a bit of a no brainer to make Vita games at the moment. The extra horsepower and resolution over the portable competition with physical controls also helps the developers bring their visions to life more easily without compromise.

Back in May yes. But not today.

It cost Indie devs $2000 for a PS4 dev kit ( Initial kits were free, but only the first batch ). Then licensing costs on top.

For Xbox One it costs $499 for a retail Xbox One ( which is a dev kit ) and now they can publish said game on Windows 8, WP8 and Xbox One themselves. No fees.

Its now massively cheaper for Indies on Microsoft platforms.

It costs $499 to get a retail Xbox which will at one point become a dev kit, that feature could be released in 2015 for all we know. Also I would love a source for the bolded part.

No problem. Like I said. The initial batches were handed out like candy to trusted devs. The rest will and already are paying for their kits. Oh and the indies look as though they are only loaned for 1 year. They have to pay for it after that. So Microsoft is actually doing much more for the indie since July.

"Polygon spoke to various development sources who say that the PlayStation 4 dev kit costs about $2,500, which is $2,000 more than an Xbox One. Indie Xbox One developers will also pay a fee to Microsoft, which a source said is a few hundred dollars. Microsoft declined to talk publicly about the fee.

Although this $2,500 price is being cited in development circles, the game-makers we spoke to all said that Sony had lent them dev kits for a limited period of one year, for free. As of right now, there are no dev kits being sold. Sony is sending whatever it has available to favored developers"

http://www.polygon.com/2013/7/24/4553842/so-how-much-does-it-cost-to-develop-for-playstation-4