selnor1983 said:
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 |
I don't see where you get from that article that only the initial batch of dev kits were "handed out like candies", the article doesn't say it like that and if you go to Sonys Developer page it states that you can still get a PS4 loaned. But yeah Microsoft is giving away dev kits for free I'm not gonna discredit that. They only do that if you're a "proven indie developer" though, but you'll probably have to be something along those lines as well for Sony to loan you PS4 devkit.
What I really don't see in that article is that Sony is asking devs to pay licensing fees rather it says that Microsoft is doing so. n fact if you visit Sonys Developer Homepage again you'll see it states that are not asking for any licensing fees.
Link to the developer page: http://us.playstation.com/develop/
