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Sony Gives Educational Access To PS2/PSP SDKs
Verunks points out that senior manager Mark Danks at the Playstation Blog has announced the availability of PS2 and PSP development kits through college programs. He writes:
"PlayStation-edu is a program for universities and colleges to get access to PS2 and PSP development kits ... the same ones that professional developers use to make the games you love to play. You get the development software, the hardware, and the SDK to learn and experiment with. SCEA wants to make sure that students who are graduating from college are ready to program on PlayStation hardware and that means getting it into your hands."
Holy shit, grow the fuck up, it's not the like that ancient rootkit killed half your family and raped your father. Go troll somewhere else.
Do it yourself, because no one else will do it yourself. [beta blockade 10-17 Feb]
Yes, the programming techniques for any newer console are derived from the ones used on the last console. Some things get simpler, some things get more complicated. The PS2 and PSP devkits the Sony sells to developers can't be in much demand at this point; it makes perfect sense to convert all those very pricey business assets into some kind of accountable "good will" and at the same time train new developers in the twisted Sony way. Microsoft has a big advantage (in terms of training developers) in that the Xbox and X360 development environments are based on Direct X and on Visual Studio which are accessible to the general public and in fact have enormous user bases already. To those people who would reject the opportunity to learn PlayStation coding - based on Sony's reputation for evil - I say 'fine by me'. The fewer coders I have to compete with, the more my skillz are worth in the market.
Except access to the XNA platform isn't really a "devkit", that's like saying Flash 7 is a devkit for the Wii...