Interview

September 17, 2010

Team Ninja Talk 3DS Development

New Team Ninja head of development Yosuke Hayashi spoke with Gamasutra at TGS and gave an insight into what it’s like to develop for the 3DS.

“The 3DS in and of itself is easy to develop for. It’s a handheld platform, which makes it relatively easy from a development standpoint. But being 3D, other than just the specs, we have to figure out how to use it well, how to use that effect. That’s something we’re having fun with, trying to figure that out. Up until now, 3D [in games] has not been an everyday experience. We think that with the 3DS, this will be the first time that anybody can get a 3D experience just about anywhere. It’ll be just a part of everyday life. So we’re trying to put out a 3D fighting game and see how that goes, and learn from that experience. We’ll go from there to see where 3D should go, and how we can use 3D to make a deeper experience in the future.”

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Tags: 3DS, Interview, Team Ninja, Yosuke Hayashi.

Filed under Corporate, Developers, Interviews, News, Nintendo 3DS by Stephanie on Sep 17th, 2010. 4 Comments.

September 13, 2010

Capcom Details 3DS Graphical Capabilities

Here are some points taken from Capcom’s 3DS experiences so far.

- Couldn’t believe the results they were getting out of the 3DS.
- utilizes all the common rendering techniques on 360/PS3 like HDR rendering, surface shaders and normal maps, depth of field, gamma correction and more.
- 2x Anti Aliasing in 2D mode, off in 3D mode.
- polygon count and resolution is lower than RE5 but Revelations has similar expression.
- Street Fighter IV 3DS uses the same engine.

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Tags: 3DS, Capcom, Graphics, Interview.

Filed under Corporate, Developers, Hardware, News, Nintendo 3DS, Rumours & Speculation by Stephanie on Sep 13th, 2010. 1 Comment.

Sonic Colors – Better Than 2D Sonic?

I must admit, it seems as though Sega have finally got the gameplay right with Sonic Colors after so many lackluster attempts to bring Sonic to 3D. Producer Takashi Iizuka is pretty confident about it too

“The team think they know the problem (with 3D Sonic games), but the reason behind it is because those games in 3D didn’t live up to the expectation of the fans. In Sonic Colors, the team looked back at previous Sonic games and looked at the pros and cons of each title, and they hope they have addressed all the goods and bads in Sonic Colors. We believe that this Sonic game is as good as or even better than the 2D Sonic games.”

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