Editing Video game console (section)

===Console development kits===
{{Main|Game development kit}}
Console or game development kits are specialized hardware units that typically include the same components as the console and additional chips and components to allow the unit to be connected to a computer or other monitoring device for debugging purposes. A console manufacturer will make the console's dev kit available to registered developers months ahead of the console's planned launch to give developers time to prepare their games for the new system. These initial kits will usually be offered under special confidentiality clauses to protect trade secrets of the console's design, and will be sold at a high cost to the developer as part of keeping this confidentiality.<ref name="fund game dev">{{cite book | title = Fundamentals of Game Design | first =Earnst | last = Adams | page = 105 | date = 2014 | isbn = 9780321929679 | publisher = [[New Riders Press]] }}</ref> Newer consoles that share features in common with personal computers may no longer use specialized dev kits, though developers are still expected to register and purchase access to [[software development kit]]s from the manufacturer. For example, any consumer [[Xbox One]] can be used for game development after paying a fee to Microsoft to register one intent to do so.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.polygon.com/2016/3/30/11318568/xbox-one-dev-kit | title = Starting today, anyone can turn their Xbox One into a dev kit for free | first = Brian | last = Crecente | date = March 30, 2016 | access-date = July 31, 2020 | work = [[Polygon (website)|Polygon]] | archive-date = September 2, 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210902105644/https://www.polygon.com/2016/3/30/11318568/xbox-one-dev-kit | url-status = live }}</ref>