The NGP Could Even Have Games like Gears of War
Is there anything the NGP can’t do? It already does Uncharted, Killzone, and Call of Duty, but who is to say the games stop there? Epic Games is very excited about the device and is already working on what to do with it.
Thanks to the technical prowess of the NGP, as well as the beautiful, beautiful dual thumbstick layout, the sky seems to be the limit for Sony’s new handheld. Epic Games, creators of the Unreal Engine and renowned developer of the Xbox 360 (and PC) franchise, Gears of War, are already incredibly impressed. After showing off a tech demo of the iOS game Epic Citadel, Epic confirmed Unreal Engine 3 support for the device. Unreal on a portable system? It never seemed possible. But it doesn’t stop there. In an interview with Eurogamer, Epic VP Mark Rein believes that the device has quite the potential.
This is the kind of machine that a Gears of War-style experience would be appropriate on because it has the control layout that games like that are designed for and can produce some pretty compelling visuals. Activision announced Call of Duty for the device so of course a Gears-style game would also be appropriate.
Rein can’t even nail down his favorite aspect of the NGP.
This is a bit of a cop-out but I’d say it’s the complete package; multiple control methods, great screen, an OS that gives you low-level access to the hardware, great processing power on both CPU and GPU, GPS, 3G, dual cameras – all this on a high-end portable gaming device. There’s a lot to like there.
He also praised the power of Sony’s multi-core GPU, saying during the PlayStation Meeting that it “is roughly four times as powerful as any portable we’ve previously seen.”
Concluding:
We’re very excited and think you’ll be stunned at what’s possible on Sony’s next generation portable platform.
10 Responses to “The NGP Could Even Have Games like Gears of War”
That’s awesome. Gears of War games are the only game I like on xbox 360. Man NGP is stealing the spotlight from the 3DS
Hell yeah it is! I remember when the 3ds was announced everybody was excited, now nobody is even talking about it, the NGP is a portable PS3 and the 3ds is just a DS with 3D
I think sony is getting off on embarrassing the competition as of lately, you do gotta admit sony has completely pulled a ’360′ lately and punked m$ & nintendo on both fronts. I’ve never seen so many praises by developers for a handheld before.
Of course nobody is talking about the 3DS now. That announcement had come and gone. Now its Sony’s turn. When the 3DS actually releases, it will explode in sales, and nobody will be talking about the new PSP until it’s next presentation. This thing sounds great on paper, but lets be realistic, it has you translate to something much more than the first PSP if it is going to even think about competing with Nintendo in the marketplace.
I think epic is beating themselves up over giving exclusivity of gears to microsoft back in ’06, I really do hope something can be worked out where we can eventually see the gears franchise show up on sony consoles; gears 1 was my first xbox live online experience and nothing has matched the fun I had playing it in its heyday…I used to stay up over 48hrs sometimes dominating in execution and was at one time in the top 100 on ranked execution. Gears 2 killed my love for the series though, it was a disaster online and the mechanics at launch sucked ass, gears 3 looks promising with a beta coming soon to help polish the game so here’s to hoping the good ol’ days of gears returns.
Even though m$ has exclusivity on the trilogy maybe it’s not out of the question for epic to do prequels and spin offs for the ps3 and psp2, i’d like to see it happen…for some reason it seems odd but I think gears would handle quite intuitively with the dualshock 3 controller.
If Gears of War come to PlayStation, It should only be released on PSP2. PS3 has enough Exclusives on its way this year. It can handle the competition fine now with what its got. PSP2 now needs some games to define it. Gears, Left for Dead, Orange Box, just to steal the thunder from Xbox and then the list of new games for it. I’m shore there will be a few of them.
SONY need to suck the Xbox gamers over to the PSP2 and then with the cross game functions they can be sucked into the PS3. Perfect.
Gears of war is just about the only exclusive MS got right now. If they lose Gears it will be over for MS Xbox, there would be no games left on the Xbox worth playing. I’m glad I’ve bought a PS3. Xbox have got hardly any games at all.
hello …
i can see the gaming market dominated by Nintendo & Apple due to their user base but the NGP is the best handheld & i want 1
cheers!
i wouldn’t put much to all this.Developer’s do that all the time when a new hardware is about to enter the market.For now all this praising and support is only smoke and mirrors.It’s too early to tell
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