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130 titles coming to PlayStation 2 in 2008Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) has officially revealed the PlayStation-edu initiative that will allow colleges and universities nationwide the opportunity to obtain PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable dev kits for their classroom setting.
The company is hoping this will lead to engineer and computer science students gaining a better understanding on how some of the hardware works, and that by giving individuals access to such technology while at school will help contribute to a more efficient workforce in the future.
"We expect this program to be a great tool to teach students about the PlayStation platforms," commented Mark Danks, Senior Manager, Developer Support, on the PlayStation blog.
Schools will be required to legally purchase these dev kits and will also be required to sign legal agreements in order to get their hands on the SDK, documentation, demo code, samples and web site support. There is no specified date as to when this will be released, but we're assuming it will launch with the Fall 2008 semester.
Stay tuned for further information as it breaks.
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If this comes to Denmark, so'll I go nuts, because I do also want to be a game-developer!!
O-M-G! Please please come to Ireland!
OH YEAH!!!!!!! I was waitng this for SOOO long!!!!!
Come to England or Sony I will HUNT YOU DOWN
I would imagine this depends more on the school itself, if they dont go in for the course and buy the devkits you cant get it at all, but if your school is in a nother country and decideds to give it a shot they'd simply have to pay the money and signe the nessesary agreements for the equipment.
Hopefully it is not a lot of money for the schools to buy
the art institute of tampa BETTER get this. or I'm leaving.
It would all depend on the size of the classes they are wanting to teach with them. They would either have to buy at least ten kits if they were going to do group assignments. or maybe up to 30 if they are doing individual assignments. It really is a great idea to do. Wish that was available when I was still in high school, maybe I would have wnet to college.
dont dev kits cost a hundred grand?
I think they are doing this in order to essentially in the future come up with a similar platform like that in XNA game development so that more people become potential 3rd party developers in the future.
nice thing to do. Sony looking toward the future be getting up coming game dev. use to working with cell technology. That will lead to more exclusive games and accessories. oh well I'm only 26 i might just go back to school
this is really good, now i can get my idea up and going
psn id: gingo.... these need to be used more and more to help develop future skills for jobs in gaming hopefully they dont charge extortionate prices for them
Great idea, but the PS2 has just about hit the end of the road. I guess it would be nice to see how a console actually works though.
awesome!
Should have thought about this before the launch of the PS3