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Re:Open-source Playstation 4 SDK by pandaman on Sunday September 06, 2015 @01:27PM (#10178298)
What length exactly? Both Sony and MS released, at some point, SDKs that could use a retail unit for development [1,2,3,4] so I am not sure this is exactly why.

1.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_Mobile

2.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_for_PlayStation_2

3.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OtherOS

4.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_XNA

Re:Open-source Playstation 4 SDK by girvo on Sunday September 06, 2015 @07:51PM (#10179544)
And don't forget the Net Yaroze[0]! Sony was embracing tinkerers all the way back in 1997

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_Yaroze

Re:Open-source Playstation 4 SDK by pandaman on Sunday September 06, 2015 @08:36PM (#10179637)
I did not include Yaroze since it required a special PSX.