This Is the Closest You'll Ever Get to a PS3 Devkit

Love watching stuff like this.

I never knew Gears 3 was in development for the PS3. I dont recall when Xbox purchased the series, but I thought they always had it locked down with publishing rights alone.

Oh well, it likely would have been inferior like most 3rd party games on the PS3. The Cell really screwed that console over. I did love my PS3 and it's excellent exclusives though.

I often wondered if 3rd party publishers/developers just didn't want to put the time and money into making their games equal across the board or if the Cell was that notoriously difficult to develop games on.

I've got a PS1 dev kit, the blue Net Yaroze one. Wonder what it's worth. Not as much as the green one but still worth a few quid.

@Kang81 its been greatly refuted over the years but it is true.

Halo was also once being shopped for a port to PlayStation, which is another story most don’t know.

@get2sammyb It was indeed an RTS. That dream would eventually come true with the Wars games.

There was also a planned DS game too.

@get2sammyb exactly what @Orpheus79V said.

Crazy how things change. So many stories to be told in this industry

i saw the ps5 one really gone are the days of offline installs always wanting to call home lol
i love Anthony's videos really in-depth and educational.

@glassmusic I've seen PS2 Dev kits a long time ago at Sony hq London that was a cool moment

Give it back to Sony so they can work out how to give ps3 digital downloads.

@BeerIsAwesome

Hmm, far later than I expected.

@BeerIsAwesome Don't for forget how Take-Two was ordinally supposed to publish Halo before Micrsooft swooped in and bought bungie but Take two was able to keep Myth and Oni as a part of that deal.

@BeerIsAwesome Yeah. Microsoft isn't too crazy about forcing ownership of IP unlike Sony. There so may great IP that Microsoft have given up ownership on like Mass Effect.

thats a big boy mate... damnn

@glassmusic Same, the PS3 dev kits were the last ones I worked with. I left just before the Vita ones would’ve been rolled out.

@Kang81 Think it might’ve been Tim Sweeney himself that confirmed though the footage/code is real, it was never intended as a full Gears of War release. At the time with the 360 sales outstripping PS3's slow start,most 3rd party games led development on XB 360 with PS3 getting so-so ports.
In the case of Gears of War,the Unreal Engine had been optimised for XB 360,& Epic simply used Gears of War as a technical demo to get the engine running on ps3 apparently.
Obviously these days with Sony's "strategic" minor shares in Epic they've made sure the Unreal engine is running the likes of Fortnite etc.,a lot more smoothly on current gens.

@glassmusic at that PS3 time it was Swordfish which was also Vivendi for a short time. 50 Cent was my last. Haha.

@Robocod

That makes sense.

@glassmusic they had the word DEV instead of PS2 on the top of the console and had pc parts coming out from it, that the best I can remember about it