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Crazymann on 15 March 2011
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nitekrawler1285 said:
Crazymann said:
nitekrawler1285 said:

I for one think it's going to be the cheapest.  Having innards like an Ipad means that development costs might be as low the platform.  All those dirt cheap mobile games will be on PSN and NGP.


You may be correct, though I don't think it is a simple as that.  I do think it was a wise move by Sony to adopt an evolution of a pretty ubiquitous architecture.  However, NGP games will feel and play differently (thankfully) due to having actual buttons and other gamer niceties.  There will be more to porting than just the code... or those ports will fail.

It's also worth pointing out (though) that 3DS is based off of the same CPU family, so (from a code perspective) anything that CAN run on 3DS from the NGP library will not take too much to port either (and vice versa).  YMMV.

It's not that simple but almost so. 

People who are developing for mobile first wont have to change anything at all to get their game on the NGP.  It doesn't have to use those butttons because they are there and the NGP does have multiple multitouch panels. This of course is only if Sony allows such practices as they do sometimes require extras for ports from other platforms to be on their platform but if that isn't the case given the price of labor those ports can't fail.  Minis seems to only make that seem more feasible.

It may be worth pointing out but it doesn't do much to help the 3ds because of the massive difference in power between the 3DS versus the NGP and iOs devices and smartphones. It will end up like the Wii.  It's possible for the Wii to do many this gen games but as it's just not seen as sufficient return on investment in trying I think It will be shunned.  That is of course mostly with western devs and the multiplatform way they have developed their workflow and how they wont view dumbing it down as worth the time instead of investing in current and onward technology. 

This is all of course just me stretching out current attitudes of developers into the future but it's been pretty consistent for a while now.


I agree on the power differences, but I don't see that it makes much difference to most iOS games as they are relatively simple, and would port to 3DS without issue.  Obviously, the phone games with NGP levels of graphics won't make it without cutting, but (honestly) can't we agree that the VAST majority of these titles could run on a 3DS?