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."

Re:I'll pass, thanks.

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I know they're separate divisions of Sony and all, but it's hard to make that distinction from far away, watching them get away with murder at the expense of the computer illiterate or trusting ignorant. I don't know how you can feel good about supporting their platform if you're a software developer.

Wow. Uh, well like you said.. separate divisions for one.. and didn't they outsource the actual DRM software? The guys who were making the decisions from on high in the music division are probably just as computer illiterate as the general populous. And hasn't it just been a one of so far? Compared to MS, Sony are the Carebears in my eyes.. MS have done far more damage to computing by even frickin allowing CDs to automatically install rootkits like that with their poor security practices. I understand that you want to have principals, but I like Sony because the majority of their products are actually good products, if somewhat overpriced at times. I dislike Microsoft because the majority of products they make are poorly conceived and implemented, and are often sickenly overpriced unless you get OEM stuff.