Sony cuts price of PS3 development kit

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Source: http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/17351.cfm

Originally Posted by Afterdawn.com

Sony Computer Entertainment has cut the cost of the PlayStation 3 development kit by 80 percent, from $10,000 USD to $2000 USD.

"With more and more new and exciting PS3 titles scheduled for release this year from third-party developers and publishers as well as from SCE Worldwide Studios," the company added, "SCEI will deploy various measures to further reinforce game development for PS3 and will continue to expand the platform to offer attractive interactive entertainment experiences only available on PS3."

Initially, the development kit cost $20,000 USD but the price was halved in late 2007.

While this move wont make a difference to large publishers, small independent developers should be very excited for the price drop which will allow them to finally see the PS3 as a viable alternative.

Seeing how Sony cut the dev kit from $10K to $2K, we could see alot more games made by small developers hitting PSN!