Games Development on COnsolves,

edscdk · 6 Nov 2009 at 22:29

need some info for some college work, are console games developed on standard consoles?

Does anyone know the names of any software that is used?

I found out that you can buy the SDK's for PS3 from sony are the others the same or are there 3rd part softwre packages available?

thanks in advance for anyone that can provide any information

PinkFloyd · 6 Nov 2009 at 22:47

Can't think of any proper games that were made on anything other than a PC.

edscdk · 6 Nov 2009 at 23:04

do you mean they are generally developed on a PC or are you being sarcastic? I'll searching google but not getting much informaition..

Kreeeee · 6 Nov 2009 at 23:04

For the 360 you can develop your own arcade games using the XNA kit.

AGD · 6 Nov 2009 at 23:13

For proper development you will need ps3 and 360 devkits. You won't get one though

PinkFloyd · 6 Nov 2009 at 23:14

edscdk said:
do you mean they are generally developed on a PC or are you being sarcastic? I'll searching google but not getting much informaition..

Games are developed on PCs.

edscdk · 6 Nov 2009 at 23:15

are ps3 and 360 devkits a hardware item or jsut software?

thanks for all the infor so far,

Kreeeee · 6 Nov 2009 at 23:17

Both.

DireEmblem · 6 Nov 2009 at 23:20

You could download a version of Linux for your ps3/ps2, and then get an IDE to develop games on it.

Googles your answer.

Lightnix · 6 Nov 2009 at 23:23

edscdk said:
are ps3 and 360 devkits a hardware item or jsut software?

thanks for all the infor so far,

The hardware portion of the devkits are, to the best of my knowledge, versions of the console that have the ability to send debugging information to a development workstation.

edscdk · 6 Nov 2009 at 23:30

great info guys TVM,

Welshy · 7 Nov 2009 at 12:00

You won't be able to get your hands on dev-kits unless you have a lot of money, or work for a computer games company. They don't let every Tom-Dick and Harry have them I'm afraid mate.

And yes, games are typically developed on PCs, connected to these dev-kits.

I'd recommend you have a look at XNA if you're interested in giving it a go.

Xenoxide · 7 Nov 2009 at 14:55

Development is always done on PC's, on the 360 usually with Visual Studio. It is then tested on the 360 using the 360 dev kit, which is a specially licensed/manufactured console capable of running unsigned content.

The same applies to PS3's and PSP's. Unsure if there's a Wii/DS dev kit (Although I'm pretty sure the DS dev kit is called Nitro).

Herminator · 7 Nov 2009 at 19:14

Wii's have devkits too.

There's more than one type of "dev kit" for some consoles too.
Early PS3 devkits were quite different from what they are now, neither of which look like a PS3, it's custom built hardware and bloomin expensive. There are also PS3 test stations, which do look like PS3's but obviously have debugging stuff built in.

Games are "built" on PC's, this is then sent to the devkits where things can be tweaked and tested. Tweaking may be through dev menus or through the PC connected to the console.

It's all rather expensive and pretty useless to anyone other than a developer.