Developers React to HoloLens Dev Kit Price & Date

[Normchacho]

jlmurph2 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.

I was corrected on this recently. PS4 and Xbox dev kits are around $5000

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

 

Whoever corrected you was very wrong. The PS4 dev kit was $2500 and the Xbox One dev kit was actualy just a normal Xbox One, so $500.

 

Edit: But as I said, even if they were more expensive (which they aren't) the risk of spending the money on a dev kit for an upcoming major console is much lower than one for something like AR.