Rumor: Sony handing out pricey dev kits like candy

A PS4 development kit costs around $2500, five times that of the price of the Xbox One, which doubles up as its own development kit. However, rumor has it that Sony isn’t selling these dev kits but handing them out one one year loans for free. One anonymous commenter said,“All the indies I know got … Read more

PS4 reserves 5.5GB of RAM for game developers

As per an internal document handed to Digital Foundry by an unanimous source, the PS4 reserves 3.5GB of its 8GB GDDR5 memory for the operating system, leaving around 4.5GB for game code. This, coupled with an additional 1GB of flexible memory, brings up the tally to 5.5GB for code. As revealed in the documents, the 4.5GB, … Read more

Sony’s Press Conference Scheduled for Gamescom 2013

It has been confirmed that Sony will be holding a press conference at next month’s Gamescom, the world’s biggest game show. The event is pretty much Europe’s own version of E3, and it is going to take place on Tuesday August 20th in Saatenhaus am Rheinpark in Cologne, Germany. Doors will open 6pm CET, conference will begin … Read more

Activision splits from Vinvendi, pays $8 billion to go indie

In an interesting turn of events, Activision Blizzard has arranged to buy back around 429 million shares and some tax attributes for $5.83 billion to effectively split with its parent company, Vivendi. In addition, ASAC II LP, whose members include Chinese games publisher Tencent as well as financial firms, will be securing a further 172 million shares for … Read more

The Cost of Developing for the PS4

Polygon recently did a investigation of their own, to find out how much it costs for indie developers to create games for the PS4. They spoke with many different indie developer companies and found out that the PS4 dev kit costs $2,500. An Xbox One indie developer says that their kit costed a few hundred … Read more

Revealed: PS4 size, weight and running temperature

Courtesy of some new documents that have filed through FCC we have come to know the size, weight and running temperature of the PS4. It was evident from the beginning when the PS4 was released that it was much smaller than the PS3. For those who did not have a proper look at the machine, … Read more

Analyst indicate PS4 sales to be Fifty Percent Better than Xbox One

The PS4 will go head on against the Xbox One this holiday season, to see who prevails as the best next-gen console. ConsumerMetrix has been examining the intense battle where they received over 6,000 feedback from individuals all across the U.S. and Europe. The report has been titled ‘Games Consoles: Purchase Intention Index Q2 2013‘. … Read more