Nice, though not surprising really - after all, Sony does want as much game devs on their platform as possible, and Unity being indie/small devs darling is best way to assure that will happen, specially in combination with self-publishing model Sony announced for PS4.

That said, I can see more small-mid devs moving to UE4 in the future (let's be honest, Unity simply can't technically compete with it) - Epic realized in last couple of years how much attention Unity is getting from them (inXile upcoming Wasteland 2 and Torment, Obsidian's Project Eternity, Playdead's (Limbo) next game, to name just few) and they sure don't want to miss that boat - I think that's why one of most interesting things Mark Rein talked about in GT's post Sony conference show was UE4 for small devs and self-publishing on PS4.

Thats cool but kinda expected. i actually use unity a lot and love it. Its not a super strong engine or anything, but I always feel like you can do a lot with it. Honestly I kinda hated using the unreal engine and when i hear about this a few years ago i was super happy with how it worked.

This can only be good for PS3/Vita surely?

I'd be more surprised if they DIDN'T develop for the PS4...

The whole point behind Unity was to get a unified engine that could work across all major hardware plaforms (hence the name).

Great! I've mucked around a little on Unity...Its alright, seems to be quite popular.

how does it compare with sony's phyre engine

Yeah but still.  Unity Pro is really cheap even in comparison.  I think fully loaded it's only like 6K?  With no royalty payments.

actually its 1.5K i just made a quick search on the site

https://store.unity3d.com/

It's 1.5K for the barebones product...

when you load up on the whole kit it's 6K.

1.5 for Unity + 1.5 for IOS Pro + 1.5 for Android Pro + 1.5 for Flash Pro.

Which is quite the deal still.  The various PS stuff might cost extra when released but still.

ohh didnt notice the add ons and stuff.