Sony launches new dev tech -- dubbed Edge

via ps3fanboy

That's right -- the complaints about the PS3 dev-kits and all being really limited and tough to work with must have been grounded in some kind of fact, or else Sony wouldn't have released an all new set of tools for developers working on PS3 titles. This new kid, called PlayStation 3 Edge has "been put together by three first-party technology teams within Sony, the WWS Europe Advanced Technology Group, WWS America ICE team (a technology group based at Naughty Dog that specialises in graphics systems and tools for the PlayStation 3), and WWS America Tools and Technology group."

This new thingie is described by Sony: "rather than an overarching engine, these teams have chosen to create specialized systems that demonstrate best practices of SPU and RSX utilization." So, is this a step in the right direction for PS3 software development? We submit that it certainly is. With better technology and tools made available to developers, not only will their game development costs decrease, but games will begin to look better and better, do more and more at once. Maybe next-gen titles will drop to $50 as a standard in a year or so. Oh, wait... the Wii already has them at that price. Well, those'll drop to $40 and below at that point. Pricing wars are fun.

meh, no offense but you really can't compare gaming prices of the Wii and the 360/PS3. The games for the Wii shouldn't need huge teams to make the games work well.

They just need a team that can make games for last generation consoles but just make them use the Wii-mote/nunchuck as the input device.

I love the controller idea, but the games itself looks as good as (can be better but i haven't really seen anything yet) the XBox/GC.

The other 2 companies are trying to get games to look like something no one has seen so far. And if Sony's smart, they'd try to get developers to utilize that extra Disc space on the Blu-ray discs. Exclusive extra content on their games (or at least not needing to d/l it as an extra) would help them out a lot.