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made waves at E3 with its
innovative glasses-free 3D display. However, if developers are looking to make a full investment into the device, they may want to look at its development costs.
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According to Industry Gamers, Marvelous Entertainment’s financial report revealed that the company estimated that the development cost for the 3DS to range from $599,000 to $1.8 million. This is supposedly three times higher than current DS development costs which start at $52,700. This probably includes initial costs to purchase 3DS dev kits and additional resources to program 3D logic.
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Also, PSP titles are said to cost as much as $709,000 to develop. The bottom line is that traditional DS developers like 5th Cell, responsible for Scribblenauts will find development costs difficult to swallow.
This obstacle could provide an interesting shift in development support. Its not conceivable for small apps developers to move onto the PSP away from the DS. Also, large development houses could potentially shift away from the PSP and onto the 3DS as well. It will be interesting to see if the PSP and DS will switch places.
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