Microsoft may offer $100 Xbox 360 games dev kit

At the Game Developers Conference here on Tuesday, the rumor is that Microsoft plans on announcing Wednesday a developers kit that would make it possible for anyone to build games for the console, or for PCs, and that the kit will cost only about $100.

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The move follows complaints that it is far too expensive for developers to create games for the outfit’s machine. While the 360 does have a raft of good games, most of them are from the big software publishers and there have been few from the ‘bloke in a garage’ or even the small games companies.

Certainly it will mean that there could be even more games for the XBox and make it a bit tougher for the PS3 later this year.

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