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President of EA Sports Peter Moore has talked about some of the tech challenges with 3D - and pointed at frame rate and camera angles as two areas to watch.
In an interview with CVG sister mag Xbox World 360, Moore was asked about his thoughts on 3D - and pointed out a couple of stumbling blocks for the burgeoning new tech.
"We're certainly looking at 3D; there are some tech challenges - frame rates being one," he said.
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It turns out that many moons ago, Microsoft once had its eye on the Sony published LittleBigPlanet series.
Microsoft in a nutshell. Always tried to poach Sony employees, games, 3rd party games and devices like the depth camera that was turned into Kinect but was running on PS2 before Xbox 360. Wouldn't be surprised they wanted LBP. Just like they worked behind the scenes pushing the MLB to bring Sony's baseball game to Xbox instead of making their own.
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They didn't spend years trying to develop their own baseball game. They wanted Sony's game.
They're scum.
"However, Healey said Media Molecule wouldn't have felt right doing that, adding it would have been "morally corrupt"."
Major kudos to Media Molecule for being an upright studio with principles.
Great, more stories like this please. Show the last of the zombies holding the line what we've been saying for years: Microsoft is anti competition, anti industry and has no interest in making games at all.
But hey, at least there's an Xbox Games Showcase to look forward to, right?
Well considering SONY just killed the series, LBP would've been dead by now either way. Though MM probably wouldn't exist by now either, so I'm glad they stayed with SONY, hopefully they don't get shut down any time soon or ever honestly.
and then Gorilla goes and proves them wrong... again
Its through challenges that create progress which allows us to grow and evolve. If developers never challenged them selves we would still be playing 8 bit graphics.
Nothing worth doing is easy.
since the interview was from a xbox360 magazine.. its obvious that there is going to be frame rate problems
Sony said this a few weeks ago. That's why they recommended 720p.
Speaking of EA..... WHY DID YOU REMOVE THE SPRINT BUTTON IN MADDEN???
ARGH!
720p isn't a recommendation, it is a limitation of current console tech. Having made noise about 3D sony at least saves face by acknowledging it as a limitation by making it a policy. That said some 3D games may appear in less than 720p to achieve acceptable frame rates.
For PS3 it is a hamstring, for 360 it was purely intentional (the sweetspot). Unlike Sony though Microsoft doesn't give a shit about 3D and won't even talk about policy regarding 3D, besides saying their hardware supports 3D.
we need a new class of consoles that can do 1080p at 60+ frames per second, and a cable that can connect those consoles (hdmi 1.4 or displayport 1.2 etc), but they'll hit limitations soon too unless they are designed for even more bandwidth for higher resolutions and better frame rates. 3D on Apple's iMacs resolution or better at 120+ frames per second. Multiple ports would be a good plan.