What are the Xbox 360 and PS3 Capable of?

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Hi i’m not planning on creating for the consoles but i just want to know how you could get a dev kit for an Xbox or PS3.

I am a big fan of LittleBigPlanet and the company (Media Molecule) said they showed their concept to sony and they were given a PS3 Developer Kit.

And i also know about the Xbox’s Indie Games, and one of my wishes is that Microsoft allow the use of Unity and allow games to be atleast 4GB.

And i also want to know what both consoles are capable of, i heard the Xbox isn’t allowed to have outward connection to servers etc.

But what about the PS3, is it allowed to connect to servers and what other things can the consoles do that computers can do to?

Thanks for reading

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aside of rather basic informations you can find on google you will need to be licensed developer with sony to get these NDA informations.

The XBox can have external connections but it must use the xbox networking bound to XBox Live Gold memberships (even if you do an MMO for example).

The PS3 does not have such a restriction but there are others.
In the end most of these don’t touch you as you wouldn’t use them if you used unity but thats neither a topic as well, cause you need to be a licensed MS / Sony developer to buy console unity licenses at all (the Wii one is already available, gives you an idea on licensing and pricing)