Sony slashing PSP development costs by 80%

that's called awesomeness right there

That's a great thing. It'd be nice to see more games for the PSP. I never play mine anymore because the games don't really interest me.

With all the rampant piracy on PSP, at least this gives developers more of an incentive to keep the platform alive. Although Sony pretty much had to do this since they just invested so much money into the PSP Go!

lol- umm how do you cut the cost of game development? Are they forcing all developers to outsource to china?

They should give the development kits away for free (not to every regular Joe, though). I bet they'd make far more money of licensing than they would for a kit.

In any case, this is good news for everyone.

By cutting the cost of development I take it as meaning they only giving it 20% of the money they normally were to make new features and generally keep it in working order. It seems like a bad thing to me, an increase in "development" being we're not cutting support for it.

how bout cutting the price on the ps3

They should make it as easy, cheap to develop for the PSP (PS3) as for the iPhone. If they are worried about game quality then reserve the right to review each app before it gets released. I don't know why Sony (and Nintendo) has not done this yesterday.

With the formal announcement of the PSP Go, I'm really excited for Sony's latest handheld. While there've been three other iterations of the PSP, they just didn't do it for me. The Go looks to be a step in a bright direction and hopefully more developers will flock to the handheld, especially seeing as how they'll be able to cut pressing costs by not pressing final cuts on UMD.

I wish it'd been someone else who said it. Kaz has been spilling a lot of BS since a few years back, and I feel that he had lost a lot of cred as the face of PS3.

Jeez, This announcement reminded me of those guys who are tweaking the levels with analog sticks. Why don't the magically make it 80% cheaper to deve;op for the PS3 with these mystical development cost cutting powers of theirs?

Sony: OH BTW it's 80% cheaper to develop now for the PSP!
Developer: wut?

In before trolls...too late.

One good way to slash development costs is by handing devs a premade engine that can do pretty much anything. I believe Flower was developed on the PhyreEngine which is free to PSN developers, but only for PS3 software. It wouldn't surprise me at all if Sony did something similar for the PSP.

Between the free engine, reduced licensing costs and reduced devkit prices, I don't see why they couldn't make it 80% cheaper.

I thought the slashing was for the psp since there gonna be a new one, but NO!! is for developer tools. I don't mind buying more old PSP if they cut the price, i love it in every way. I use it for music, games and movies.