| the-pi-guy said: The devkit is actually super cheap. http://www.gamespot.com/articles/sony-slashes-ps3-development-kit-cost/1100-6183089/ The PS3 devkit cost about 20,000$ when it came out. Still about 2000$, 3 years later. http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/90414-Sony-Cuts-Price-of-PS3-Dev-Kit-by-80-Percent It sounds like $10k is typical for a 360 devkit too. From what I hear prices like these are very typical. |
The context here is very different though. There is a huge difference in the amount of risk involved when developing for the next Playstation or Xbox compared to developing for a tech that is still a rather large unknown.
The big factor will be whether MS sees fit to give them out for free. The PS4 dev kit was roughly $2500 but Sony gave tons of them out to smaller devs for free.
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