About that PS5 Devkit that appeared on eBay... | MVG

now we've seen leaks of playstation 5 hardware in news outlets over the last 18 months or so especially up to the launch of the ps5 where we saw those 3d renders of this buck rogers looking development kit we also saw leaks of dev kits as well as the controller that was shown before the launch of the ps5 and a lot of people got excited about the possibilities of what the playstation 5 may look like before it launched and ultimately as we know it ended up being a completely different design than the dev kit and i guess as a heads up for some people development kits sometimes they are identical to final hardware but most of the time especially when we're talking about playstation or sony hardware usually the dev kits look a lot different now i will say that's not always the case but it does hold true for the playstation 4 and indeed the playstation 5. now with that said it's only been look we're still into the first year of the playstation 5 and yesterday a tweet from zubitech showed a ps5 development kit was listed on ebay for a few hours and as you can see here these are the photographs of this ps5 dev kit with a i guess an all black dual sense controller and this is the real deal this is a playstation 5 dev kit now this is really interesting to see that the seller actually took the time to make all these photos of this particular system very artistic looking photographs uh this one here as well with the two the two dual sense controllers and i gotta say this is a pretty ballsy move because for those people that don't know these types of development kits when they get listed on ebay ended up getting removed very quickly and in this case zubitech also tweeted that the dev kit was delisted a few hours later now there were a lot of media outlets that ran the store yesterday and kotaku was one of them and as you can see here the ps5 dev kits quickly pulled from ebay sony playstation 5 development kits were yanked almost as soon as they appeared now what's interesting about these articles that i was reading yesterday is there was a lot of confusion as to why why were they pulled from ebay there was speculation no one really understood the reasoning for it and i will tell you that it's quite simple these dev kits are sold property of sony or the platform holder and at the end of the day it's really up to them to decide if they want to claim back their hardware and if you're trying to sell a ps5 dev kit on ebay then sony has every right based on the initial account holder agreement that you have with them that they can basically claim it back anytime they like and it even goes further than that it really is more of a agreement that you know you shouldn't be doing anything illegal you shouldn't be posting photographs of the dev kit you shouldn't be certainly not selling it on on ebay so the question now becomes well who is the seller of this development kit because they either really just don't understand what they're trying to do here or they have a certain level of separation or a buffer between whoever actually acquired this dev kit from sony in the first place whatever studio that belonged to and i'm making a lot of assumptions here but i am assuming that sony most likely had sent this dev kit out to a particular studio and for whatever reason maybe the studio got closed down very hard to say or maybe they were required by another studio and these dev kits kind of got lost in the shuffle now if you take a look at the article it says a screenshot of the ebay page indicates that the two consoles managed to reach 2 850 euros around 3 373. there was also a test kit that was being listed which does tell me that these kits probably came from a studio and these dev kits were taken and listed on ebay now most likely it's probably not the person that was using these dev kits at the studios if it was then they're probably not working there anymore and i'm not saying that they were let go or anything but maybe they were you know there was an acquisition or something that happened or the person had left the studio and they never returned their hardware but it's really up to the studio themselves to return hardware back to playstation or back to microsoft once there is no longer a need for them and the reasons for these are you know quite obvious obviously there is a lot of intellectual property that's going on here there may be some code or there may be some games that are on the system that are in some type of prototype fashion there's a lot of reasons why sony would want to reclaim their hardware and i think this article really does illustrate a couple of things about development kits and that is platform holders don't like dev kits being listed on ebay unless it's something that is maybe a couple of generations ago and i mean more than like three generations then what they're probably going to do is go ahead and take these listings down and then some instances go after the individual and i don't mean legally but they're probably just going to ask them listen you need to return this hardware back to us this is our hardware this is not yours all you've done is paid for you know a license to use our development kits over a certain period of time once you're done with those dev kits you need to send them back now obviously there are collectors out there that would be very interested in something like this they don't necessarily care about what's on the system because this is a not nice looking dev kit and i think a lot of people that are playstation hardware enthusiasts would love to get their hands on this so you know where do they fit into this well unfortunately at the end of the day really sony has all the cards here on this one and look i'm not suggesting that there isn't collectors that have ps5 dev kits out there but i think ebay really is the wrong place to do it because it does attract a lot of attention i think in the past when we talked about the sale of dev kits to you know one collector to another it was usually done on on forums like assembler games or you know things like that that had a little bit less of you know eyes on them at the time the problem with modern development kits is that they all require activation so in the old days you've seen me do videos on the xbox og xbox dev kit and stuff like that they were pretty simple that you just plug them in and you could install the sdk and then you could just start writing code and debugging against them immediately the same thing would actually happen with the playstation 3 and the xbox 360. but in recent times and when i say recent times i mean probably in the last 10 years dev kits now require activation for the most part but when it comes to microsoft and sony hardware they require activation so what does that mean well if you did manage to get a hold of this dev kit and you turned it on there would be some text on there that would say this dev kit has expired and requires activation you know where i'm going with this there is no way that this dev kit is ever going to get activated sony probably already knows the serial number of this development kit and i would also say that they've probably blacklisted it completely in its entirety until it gets returned back so there's really not much you can do with a modern dev kit these days they do require activation and again unless you're a collector and you want to pay a lot of money for something that looks cool like this and it does look cool don't get me wrong i think a lot of collectors of exotic hardware would love to get their hands on this but if you are someone that is looking to i guess you know get involved in some type of homebrew scene on modern hardware like the playstation 5 then it's going to be very difficult for you to do so but this is really interesting for me because i i guess my my question remains you know who was the person that actually listed this on ebay and what what did they think was going to be the outcome here of of this i mean sony was always going to take this auction offline and possibly we don't know but possibly have also taken further action against the person that's listing this on ebay but i think at a minimum they're probably sending them emails or maybe a cease and desist and asking them to look you need to stop what you're doing and you need to send this development kit back to us but i guess i want to finish off by saying that eventually you know these kits will become obsolete you know a couple of generations further down the line when we're talking about the playstation 7 or something like that these types of things will become collectors pieces and sony won't really care as much about them i mean i think about the playstation 3 you can buy dev kits debug kits pretty readily on ebay and sony's not really that interested in you know going after individuals it's really just about the current landscape of things and i think that would include playstation 4 and playstation 5 dev kits but we're going to leave it here with this episode let me know what you thought about the ps5 dev kit listing on ebay and i want to hear your opinions in the comments below what do you think about this we are going to leave here for this episode thank you so much for watching if you liked it don't forget to put a like on it and i'll catch you guys in the next video bye for now you

Channel: Modern Vintage Gamer

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Length: 10min 16sec (616 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 05 2021