Mark Rein: 3DS is below our specs

[freebs2]

Scoobes said:

freebs2 said:

I don't understand what's wrong with his statement...He is just saying that UE3 probably won't work on this platform, so? The UE3 was originally designed for PC/HD consoles after all, and from what we have seen 3DS is not more powerful than a Wii. About the "epic citadel" demo, well it runs on an iphone4 or Ipad, those are powerful machines, but they also cost about like 2 ps3s (unless you buy the useless ipod touch or ipad w/only wi-fi)), also graphics like those of the demo will not be achievable on a normal game with NPCs.

PS. I also agree with Veder Juda.

The problem is that other 3DS demos and games shown off already show that a great deal of advanced effects and animations are possible on the 3DS. These demos are technically showing off more than the Epic Citadel demo on the iPhone, which has nice textures but little else.

He says UE3 is not possible on 3DS, yet other, supposedly less talented studios have already shown its possible to do a lot more than Epic Citadel on the new handheld.

All true, except that I wouldn't call Capcom and Kojima Prodution  "supposedly less talented studios" than epic, however what I mean is that UE3 is made to speed up game development process, and doing so you use some pre-generated code and stuff and you put that into the game. On 3DS there's no need for this, since while it is very good, it's not so much powerful to make graphics designing too long or expansive to make this necessary, also imo what makes MGS and RES so good it's not very much the game engine but it is quality of design, on ps3/X360 there is really a lot of power so much, that imo, using a cutting-edge engine is enough to make a game look cool even without a great design ( I think for example at the last Splinter Cell, it looks good but its graph design are quite ordinary), while on 3DS (like on Wii or older consoles) you don't have enough resorces to run a great variety of different effects, particles, lights, hi-def textures, physics all at the same time so you don't even need an powerful engine to do that.

On platform like this you have more to rely on the designers and animators skills, if you look at the MGS demo for example you don't find some kind of ultra-high def texures or a massive use of shader effects, but it is a well-balanced mix of moderate res bumped/normal mapped textures (in the right points), good enviroment design, and the use of bloom lighting that makes it look so good. Then about the capcom's framework engine that works on it, I think it is a more felxible, less demanding engine, simply considering that RE5 on my PC runs significantly better than other UE3 made games like Mass Effect, Dead Space or Mirror's Edge while it is also, by a mile, the best looking of them all.