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CES 2006: PS3 Dev Kits Out
Sony unleashes thousands of dev kits.
by Juan Castro
January 5, 2006 - Here's a little bit of news for those anxiously awaiting the Sony PS3, successor to Sony's ever-popular PS2. The information, or non-news depending on how you want to look at it, came from a Sony press conference held today at the Consumer Electronics Show, held this year at the Las Vegas Convention center.
According to Sony, over 4,000 development kits for the PS3 have shipped to developers. A logical step, and nothing terribly exciting, but it's good to know that developers have something tangible to work with. And that's about it for now.
Stay tuned for more information.
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