Developers React to HoloLens Dev Kit Price & Date

[Normchacho]

the-pi-guy said:

LivingMetal said:

Normchacho said:

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.

A lot of earlier tech like this is usually overpriced like this.  Also same deal with higher end graphics cards.  Nvidia sells specialized cards for vastly higher costs. 

I'm not really sure if that's really the case.  It sounded much higher. 

These are not products for the consumer.  The consumer version isn't going to cost 3000$.  This is a specialized product for a very small market.  This market is accustomed to such high prices. 

https://www.vg247.com/2013/07/26/ps4-dev-kits-pricey-but-sony-handing-them-out-like-candy-rumour/

The official price of the PS4 dev kit was $2500 but from what we've heard they didn't actually sell them. Instead choosing to loan them to devs at no cost.

I'm sure the consumer version won't cost nearly this much. But for new tech like this, indie devs make up a vast majority of the support early on (just look at VR) so pricing it out of there reach (which is what the devs in this article are upset about) is potentially suicidal.