Epic Games: Sony's Next Gen Portable is a "Pretty Huge Deal"

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Joelcool7 said:

I'm honestly not suprised Mark and Epic like to always be on the cutting edge. As Happy Squirel said Epic is a graphic whore company. They make their money from developing the best possible graphics engine for the most powerful systems.

If Epic wasn't interested I would be very shocked. Also Gears coming to NGP or PS3,not likely I'm pretty sure Microsoft has the rights to the Gears franchise or at least a contract for so and so many games. So I don't expect Gears headed to NGP anytime soon if at all.

The Unreal 3 engine running on NGP will be a huge bonus for Sony and many developers will likely use it. Also dev costs will be a bitch if the title is not multiplatform, even though M.U.G.E.N's would like to think otherwise. It'll carry the same budget as a PS3 title which has gone down over the years but is still pretty damn high.

Which is why I think more studios and publishers will put their PS3 titles on NGP as well. Rather then building all that much software from the ground up for NGP. Think with this announcement how easy it will be for a publisher to take an Unreal 3 game from the PS3 and port it over to NGP. Even Epic's example is a port.

I think this is great news for NGP!

The big thing every one seems to be skipping over is that the NGP doesn't have to have AAA console experiences. It's getting heaps of online support which will allow developers to develop plenty of downloadable games for the system, which also means that they won't have to spend so much on development. Games like Joe Danger, Limbo, Pixel Junk Shooter, Noby Noby Boy, Flower, Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, Tools of Destruction and Shadow Complex are perfect examples of games that look fantastic, but they all profit in like their first week due to low development costs.

Sony seems to be gearing towards a more online method of game distribution with Playstation Suite and I'm guessing that more and more games like Dungeon Defenders, Little Deviants, Flower and Infinity Blade will start popping up on the network, along with all the current PSN games, Minis, PS1 games and maybe PS2 games will start being introduced.

We've also had countless reports saying that development on the NGP is cheap and extremely easy, which might mean ports, but it could also mean that smaller developers will be able to create cheap games on free engines like the Phyre Engine for a low price, which could also lead to a plethora of Japanese releases, similar to what happened on the PS3 and PSP as of recently.

Unlike other platforms, Sony now doesn't have to live or die by it's retail releases, as that's now only an option and not a  necessity to succeed on the platform. I don't know if it will succeed, but they are going out of their way to branch out to far more gaming sectors and they also seem to be making a quality product.