/tech/ - Technology★

>>987203 (OP)

>Has anyone here ever worked on ps4/xbone as a software dev, beta tester etc?

Not me personally but I know people who have.

>Were you allowed to bring test/dev kits home?

Not sure about xbone but Sony stipulates in their contracts that PS4 dev kits need to be kept in a locked enclosure and are to never leave the building.

>>987228

How much good stuff is on Devnet/GDN? Devs online service/forums. Are betas still published on there for other devs to play?

They're usually kept locked up, and the only one's that have surfaced have been from dev studios that went bankrupt and had their assets sold at auction

>playstation 4

there was a 3?

i imagine ps4 dev must be like webdev. you just setup a bunch of assets and a few shitty scripts then you ship your game

>>987252

Where's the infrared port?

How are they going to playtest the games without a remote?

You can enable development mode on regular xb1s.

>>987247

Could you sound anymore clueless?

>>987304

You can do console dev with the actual consoles + a PC with... well most likely nearly every console. The problem with emulators is that just because your code works in some asswipe's interpretation of what the hardware is doing, doesn't mean it will work on the real deal. For a real world example, run a classic nes series game on a gba emulator that doesn't simulate the arm's pipeline stages.

Also op, nobody cares about overpriced un-upgradable x86 boxes here. May as well be macbooks or phones you are talking about.