Sony Halves cost of PS3 Dev kit.

[savage]

Tokyo, November 19, 2007 – Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) today announced that it would enhance the game development support environment for PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3®) by integrating programming tools developed by SN Systems Limited (SN Systems)(*1), as part of the PS3 Software Development Kit (SDK)(*2).
By building on the well-established line-up of SN tool products, including the core programming tool ProDG, and offering it as part of the PS3 SDK, SCEI is committed to strongly supporting the game development community. Additionally, SCEI will enable the Debugging Station for PS3 (DECHA007J/ DECHA007A) to take part in the programming process, effectively assisting PS3 game title development on the Reference Tool (DECR-1000/ DECR-1000A) (*3).
Along with these measures to improve efficiency in PS3 game development, SCEI has also almost halved the price for its PS3 Reference Tool, effective immediately. The Reference Tool will now become available at JPY950,000 in Japan, US $10,250 in North America and €7,500 in Europe(*4).

I'm not sure if the dev kit include the PS3 dev kit hardware or not.

More info over @ http://threespeech.com/blog/?p=730.

Now if we could get that money together and port FreePascal to it ;-).

[JernejL]

i'd donate..

[noeska]

probably it is not allowed to share it. Per developer license or some sort.

[arthurprs]

very expensive, but i can donate