Game development is a business that’s only continued to get more and more expensive over the years, with part of that cost coming from the price of development kits — specialized hardware that studios need in order to build games on consoles such as Microsoft’s data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/xbox-series-x” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/xbox-series-x”>Xbox Series X|S and data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/sony” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/sony”>Sony‘s data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/playstation-5″ data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/playstation-5″>PS5 systems.
Now, those kits are getting more costly on the Xbox side of things, with Microsoft hiking the price of its Xbox Development Kit (XDK) from $1,500 to $2,000. That’s a major 33% increase, and an extra $500…
