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 Xbox Series X|S and Sony‘s 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…

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