And Sony is loaning them out for free left and right. [quote]Although this $2,500 price is being cited in development circles, the game-makers we spoke to all said that Sony had lent them dev-kits for a limited period of one year, for free. [T]here are no dev-kits being sold. Sony is sending whatever it has available to favored developers. "All the indies I know got them for free," said one developer.[/quote] For comparison, the PS3 devkit originally cost $20K. Sony is not screwing around this generation.