Ever since Intel purchased the Project Offset development team, much controversy has emerged about the release of the game. Namely, what platforms it would be coming to.
A recent video might shed some light on the matter...
Remi Arnaud, Senior Graphics Architect and Manager of the Game Engine Technology team at Intel says, "We're not limtied by the issues most developers have to deal with. As a game developer, you have to sell your game on the PS3, you have to sell it on the Xbox, because that's where the money is. That means you're limited because those platforms are old now. And so, what's comign out now is brand-new and so much bettter and all kinds of things that are not possible if you have to include cross-platform into your roadmap..."
Sounds like Intel's shying away from putting this game on the consoles and wants to take advantage of PC hardware, what else is going on behind the lines? Perhaps this is related to Intel's upcoming Larabee graphics platform?
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Extraquarter-"Unfortunate ly, history has shown, there are a select few titles, despite the enormous attention and potential, will never see the light of day. None showed so much promise, potential and excitement, arguably more than Project Offset."
"You know, it’s no secret that many games have been cancelled in the past. Some of those games had the potential to be a AAA experience but for some reason or the other, those ideas were thrown out. That is the way the industry works, because after all it’s a business."
We all know if The Getaway 3 ever had to exist it would've been to GTA-ish seeing thats what fans would've wanted.
Man, would be awesome to see The Getaway and Star Wars 1313 on PS4. Though, BloodRayne didn't make the list, it was a lot of fun too...would like to see it on PS4 as well!
I forgot all about Project offset, but I always knew PO would never come out on the PS3 or X360. PO appeared to be beyond both systems capabilities at the the time. Fractiv LLC is the name of the company that made PO demo, they actually licensed their game engine for the game Firefall. I do think Sony should make Getaway 3 for the PS4, thought the demo looked pretty nice and GW2 was decent but not great back in the day.
Project Offset!! Thank you, I have been trying to remember the name of that one, I was so excited about it but it just vanished.
I think technology now is capable of rendering Project Offset. In 2006 no way graphics processors had the rendering grunt to run this vaporware demo at HDTV resolution with AA. Look at Crysis, took about 4 years before single graphics cards could render that Crysis at max settings around 60 FPS.
My old Nvidia GTX 670 was the first graphics card I own that could rendering Crysis at 60 FPS with AA 2012. In 2010 my AMD 6970 got close, around 50 FPS without AA max settings.
Harsh if it is. But Intel are all about saving the PC right now, and sticking a big game like this on the consoles ain't going to help they're cause.
They're more interested in prolonging the life of PC gaming that just cashing in off one game.
out on consoles sooner or later.
I don't really care i wish it was coming to console preferably the PS3 but I'll play it on my Apple Mac Book instead which I'm getting for my Senior High School Graduation Gift for college.
Dumb F*** you can play games on a Mac don't hate just game and stop being a fan boy, xbot.
The problem pc gaming faces these days is NOT the lack of gpu intense games like project offset. In fact those games are the problem.
People are tyred of buying a setup for 1-2 games, almost everyone who bought a new rig when Crysis was released and only got crysis in return.
ut3 cod4 runs prefectly well on my 7950gx2 in 1680x1080, so i didnt update for 1 game (crysis)
That is a horrible return for min 800$ you spend on such a rig, even more when you update on time of the release.
Intel should start reducing theyre pricemodel and get into gamespublishing, thats the only way to sell cheap hardware and subventionise the costs through games sales.