Sony drops price on official PSP Software Development Kit (SDK)
At the
Playstation Business conference yesterday it was announced that Sony
would be changing the price on the official Playstation Portable
Development Kits. Development kits for the PSP typically cost $6,400,
the equivalent of 750,000 yen. Now the development kits have been
slashed in price, down to a cool $4,200 ( aka 500,000 yen). Sony hopes
that the drop in price will lure more development houses and studios to
take a chance and start making games for the handheld.
This is
probably a good move on Sony's part. We can all agree that there have
not been many new games being released for the system, however as we
all know Sony has also had problems with "hackers" unlocking the PSP in
order to "play games that they do not own". Hopefully this does not
offset the flood of developers that Sony is hoping for. To date over
5,400 PSP development kits have been shipped to developers.
Source: PSPUpdates