During the Game Creators Conference 2017, Nintendo announced they are dropping the price of Switch development kits. Dev Kits will now cost 50,000 yen, or $450.
The idea is to entice more Indie developers to make their games for Switch. For comparison, Wii U dev kits cost $2,500 and the Playstation 3 dev kits cost $20,000 at launch.
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