Last week, Sony's Mark DeLoura left the company in order to take on a new role at Ubisoft's San Francisco office. His previous position, that of Manager of Developer Relations at SCE America, will be filled by J. Patton, who will continue to oversee the company's developer relations team. This final bit of information was given by SCEA PR manager Ryan Bowling, who also made a particularly interesting comment on Next-Gen.biz.

Talking about Sony's continuing commitment to developers and some major third-party publishers, he also let slip the latest PlayStation 3 dev kit shipment figures:

"The best and brightest development teams are hard at work creating familiar franchises and original IP for the PS3 including - EA, Konami, Sega, Rockstar, Activison and our own internal studios just to name a few.(...)

To date we have shipped more than 10,000 development systems to 208 companies in 11 countries, the largest number ever for a PlayStation platform."

That's 10,000 development kits, for just about 100 titles announced to date for Sony's PlayStation 3. Even if we were to assume that there are twice as many games currently in development (since over 200 compnies received dev kits), it still sounds awfully generous of Sony to allocate around 50 systems for each company.

So many PS3 dev kits, so little to show for...

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