Living, you are living in some kind of dream world. Do you actually think Sony expects to sell 500,000 of these things? No, they know the market they are catering too, the article even says the poll Sony made showed about 28,000 expressed interest in the kit.
Net Yaroze wasn\'t a huge success, but for people that were interested in it it was awesome.
IMO, you seem to think this is a bad idea merely because it\'s not going to sell a million units and be a big hit. Heaven forbid Sony want to cater to a little niche community that has an interest in doing this kind of thing. Maybe other people are claiming this is trying to push PS2 as an alternative PC, but I\'m not, that is no way, shape, or form what this is attempting to do. It\'s a little niche development platform for hobbiests, plain and simple.
You get docs on the EE, the GS, the vector units, everything (at least you did in the Japanese Linux kit, I\'d assume you\'d get the same docs in the US version - though perhaps not the more recent revision). I don\'t think anyone expects some teenager in his dorm room to spit out an RPG like FFX. But there are some people that like to think in their spare time and messing around with something like that is intriguing, especially for the price point relative to a "real" development system.
