How quickly we forget what development costs looked like in the recent past >PlayStation developers need to cough up £ 12,000 for the full system (which Sony i

How quickly we forget what development costs looked like in the recent past >PlayStation developers need to cough up £ 12,000 for the full system (which Sony is adamant it doesn’t make money on), although all subsequent software tools and hardware upgrades are free. https://www.retroreversing.com/official-playStation-devkit https://www.retroreversing.com/official-playStation-devkit Not to mention other obscene costs that were common, like charging developers to issue a patch for software sold online. >Double Fine's Tim Schaefer pegged the cost of submitting an Xbox 360 patch at $40,000 https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/07/microsoft-comes-under-fire-for-five-figure-xbox-360-patch-fee/ https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/07/microsoft-comes-under...