Famed for its renowned ProDG tool, SN Systems has significant assets in both technology and experience supporting PlayStation games development, accumulated over its 10-year relationship with SCEI. A significant number of the PlayStation 2 games developers have chosen to use SN Systems' software development tools, including an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) consisting of compilers, linkers and debuggers. By having SN Systems within the group, SCEI will accelerate providing powerful solutions to PLAYSTATION 3 content development community by delivering ProDG and other high quality development tools along with an extensive support program.

"It's a great pleasure to have SN Systems on board PlayStation," said Masa Chatani, corporate executive and CTO, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. "For more than 10 years, they have pioneered the development of great tools for PlayStation content creation. By combining our experience and skills together, PlayStation will have even more sophisticated tools to deliver to content creators around the world."

"We're looking forward to working more closely with SCEI to provide even better tools for the developer community." said Andy Beveridge, co-founder and director, SN Systems.