Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!greg_labrec@interactive.sony.com From: Jerry Jessop Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.freetalk Subject: Re: Japanese Games on Net Yaroze? Date: Thu, 08 Jan 1998 09:19:40 -0800 Organization: Playstation R&D Lines: 50 Message-ID: <34B50AAC.6FE8@playstation.sony.com> References: <68s0ej$vi3@scea> <34B191A6.3107@playstation.sony.com> <34b1a770.938642@news.scea.sony.com> <34B263CF.5A2C@playstation.sony.com> <34B27BC4.BBB66BE4@ix.netcom.com> <34B42DF2.33AB@playstation.sony.com> <34b43705.337554@news.scea.sony.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.41.6.40 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Win95; I) Fair question Michael. I'll give you my personal feelings on the matter. If I were to just throw out a price it really could cause many problems, and not just for me. I'm not certain that some developers have not been given certain "discounts" and so would rather just keep the information less specific. The professional tools are rather extensive and many hardware variations exist. Don't forget that this price also includes a very extensive support team that factors into their costs. As the price of a blue debug unit is really not relavent to the Yaroze user, it just makes more sense to say what I did and not give specifics that could be wrong or misinterpreted. And no a blue debug does not even come close to costing $20,000 :) In all honesty Sony has been much more open than any other console manufacturer by leaps and bounds...... or we would not be having this discussion. I wish we were a little more open with hardware information but then all hardware guys would say that. Jerry Michael Klucher wrote: > > Umm I have a question and I dont mean to sound rude so please dont > take it that way,but why does it seem that everyting is so tight > lipped at sony? I can uderstand about like not commenting about new > products and stuff? I also wanted to know how much it's costs but I > understand if you cant say anything. but like I said I just wondered > why they dont give out things like that (I would think that it would > be a good thing that word would get around about how it's affordable). > Is that why you fill out that form and stuff on the SCEA web site does > like some from sony contact you and explain stuff (Not that I would do > that but I am guessing this is why). But thanks for hearing me out. > > On Wed, 07 Jan 1998 17:37:54 -0800, Jerry Jessop > wrote: > > >I'm not certain I can give out that information :( > > > >It's fair to say their expensive, but not as overpriced as some people > >report. They are only availible to registered professional developers in > >any case. > > > >Jerry > > > >Manny Najera wrote: > >> > >> By the way, how much would a blue PlayStation cost? > >> > >> Manny Najera