PlayStation Indies: Development Hardware Loan Program

[TubzGaming]

It is our continued goal to make PlayStation the best place to publish and play games of all shapes and sizes. Over the past couple of years, we have been thrilled to support our external publishing partners with features in Indie Spotlight events, indie montage videos on our social channels, dedicated space for PlayStation Indies on PlayStation.com, and have been working to reduce the time it takes to get a new developer on-boarded on PlayStation.

As such, we are always striving to lower the barrier of entry and improve the process for publishing on PlayStation. We’re pleased to announce a new initiative that will make it easier for new partners to hop in and get started with developing for PlayStation.

Newly licensed PlayStation game publishers and developers will be eligible to receive one PS5 development kit and one PS5 testing kit, compliments of SIE subject to applicable terms and conditions.*

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So who is eligible? We want to welcome new voices, new ideas, and new experiences from the game development and publishing industry so sign up with PlayStation today at https://partners.playstation.net/

Please refer to our list of supported countries and regions on the PlayStation Partners registration process for devtools access.**

Once you have completed registration and onboarding our team will contact you to confirm the terms of loan.***

Source : https://www-sie-com.cdn.ampproject....indies-development-hardware-loan-program/amp/

 

[Themaskedcrag]

It is our continued goal to make PlayStation the best place to publish and play games of all shapes and sizes. Over the past couple of years, we have been thrilled to support our external publishing partners with features in Indie Spotlight events, indie montage videos on our social channels, dedicated space for PlayStation Indies on PlayStation.com, and have been working to reduce the time it takes to get a new developer on-boarded on PlayStation.

As such, we are always striving to lower the barrier of entry and improve the process for publishing on PlayStation. We’re pleased to announce a new initiative that will make it easier for new partners to hop in and get started with developing for PlayStation.

Newly licensed PlayStation game publishers and developers will be eligible to receive one PS5 development kit and one PS5 testing kit, compliments of SIE subject to applicable terms and conditions.*

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So who is eligible? We want to welcome new voices, new ideas, and new experiences from the game development and publishing industry so sign up with PlayStation today at https://partners.playstation.net/

Please refer to our list of supported countries and regions on the PlayStation Partners registration process for devtools access.**

Once you have completed registration and onboarding our team will contact you to confirm the terms of loan.***

Source : https://www-sie-com.cdn.ampproject....indies-development-hardware-loan-program/amp/

This is brilliant! Love this initiative, PlayStation are definitely rebuilding their relationship with Indies, after losing some good will later last gen. Those test kits ain't cheap for a new start up.

 

[Yurinka]

These things are always great news. Now they should get rid of asking for a fixed IP, and having to submit the game separatedly, with different checklists, paperwork and QA/certification processes for the different regions and have instead a single global submission as it's done in most other digital game stores.

 

[The Legendary Warrior]

PlayStation are really the worst for Indie Devs Development.
It's about time they get their act together.

 

[adamsapple]

Not stating the terms of the loans like interest rates outright is sus.

 

[BloodMod]

Not stating the terms of the loans like interest rates outright is sus.

It's a devkit loan, it's not a financial loan.
Presumably, after a given time, people are expected to pay for the devkit, under the assumption that they earned enough revenue.