I've managed to get my hands on a Sega Saturn Cart.Dev Rev B in the last few days to begin Sega Saturn development with. It came with a giant binder that Sega used to give with the Cart.Dev featuring material for developers. One of the front pages is a flyer they included with the cost breakdown, showing how much cheaper it was to develop on the Saturn now that they offered an in-house Cross Products SNASM kit. Keep in mind that this is the cost breakdown for the "Cheaper" Cart.Dev Rev B, not the original Sophia dev box, and it doesn't include licensing fees or cert fees required to publish a title. This is for ONE dev kit:
Saturn Dev cost:
Sega Saturn Dev System I w/Hitachi E7000PC ICE - $30575
Cart.Dev development kit - $4800
Programming Target Box - $7475
Sound Target Box - $4800
Saturn Cart.Dev SIMM Buffer Board - $275
Modified Saturn for Cart.Dev - $700
Saturn Virtual CD Emulator Kit - $ 8100
Mirage Saturn CD Emulation System - $3000
Hitachi E7000PC Kit - $15000
SH2 CPU Board - $200
Yamaha 4x CD Encoder - $2500
Write-once blank CD box of 5 - $75
Total cost: $77,500
The flyer also suggests an SGI Indigo 2 workstation for 3D modeling, which is not included. That, in 1995, was about a $100k rig.
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