Revolution in March 2006?

[poissonsouriant]

Check out this possible new ad for the Nintendo Revolution. Looks like we'll be seeing the Revolution sooner than previously thought.

http://www.joystiq.com/entry/1234000440048032/

[Ezikial Anta]

Interesting.
Very interesting.

In the article, they talked about dev kits being deployed, and I remember reading in IGN that some of the larger game companies in Japan had received the Dev kits for the Rev. (At least I thought it was Revolution!)

[JackAxe]

I'm hoping Nintendo will pull a Sony, and offer a Revolution Developer kit for less then $5k.

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[Ezikial Anta]

They charge 10k for each as of now, correct?

[JackAxe]

Last I read, Sony was only charging $3k for its PS2 SDK. The PS1 SDK cost $18k when I worked for Interplay.

And just to ramble a bit like usual;

Not sure about the GamCube's SDK? The N64's was a wopping $500k for its SDK. The discouraging Nintendo monkeys at E3 stated it would cost a minimum of $20k to develop a GBA game, and that's only if I had produced a previous commercial title on another system they they deemed worthy of their greatness. Oh, and they let me know it's hard work; Duh! They currenty seem to have the same all mighty attitude as Apple had in the nineties towards their developers, so I hope this has changed with the Revolution, and they'll make it affordable for small business peeps like me to venture into.

Anyways, I've lost touch with most of the peeps I knew in the game industry, so I'm not really sure about costs now days. :o

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[jjesusfreak01]

So JackAxe, did anyone actually buy the N64 SDK? That is excessively expensive for something like that. I'll bet only the major companies bought them, probably cheaper to reverse engineer.

[Ezikial Anta]

Anyone else who made an N64 game that wasnt the big N bought them from the sound of it, past developer or not... (Rare, Capcom, LucasArts, those larger companies, I am guessing.)

[Ezikial Anta]

Last I read, Sony was only charging $3k for its PS2 SDK. The PS1 SDK cost $18k when I worked for Interplay.

And just to ramble a bit like usual;

Not sure about the GamCube's SDK? The N64's was a wopping $500k for its SDK. The discouraging Nintendo monkeys at E3 stated it would cost a minimum of $20k to develop a GBA game, and that's only if I had produced a previous commercial title on another system they they deemed worthy of their greatness. Oh, and they let me know it's hard work; Duh! They currenty seem to have the same all mighty attitude as Apple had in the nineties towards their developers, so I hope this has changed with the Revolution, and they'll make it affordable for small business peeps like me to venture into.

Anyways, I've lost touch with most of the peeps I knew in the game industry, so I'm not really sure about costs now days. :o

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Jeeze, Jack, you had always seemed to love Nintendo... After reading this, it seems you are kind of mad at them... Well, the gaming/technology industry is all love/hate anyway... =P

[JackAxe]

I loooove Nintendo. I was just griping out loud. :) Anyways, they're saying the Revolution will be easy to develop on, so hopefully that applies to being able to get me grimy lil paws on its SDK.

Interplay bought a N64 SDK. But for that price, Nintendo killed all possibilities of small shop development. One of the reasons it ws sooo expensive, is that the development platform was an SGI.

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