Midway is developing a first person shooter for all next-gen consoles, including the Nintendo Revolution. Through recruiting company Creative Heads, they are searching for a contract gameplay scripter and a level layout designer to develop a first person shooter at their Austin, Texas studio. The also specifically mention working with ´Unreal Kismet´, the Unreal 3 graphics engine´s visual scripting system.
Further, Midway are looking for a lead animator for an action-adventure game, again to be developed for all three next-gen consoles. The Midway careers page does not make any mention of platforms, though.
EDIT As Joystiq points out, this does not mean that such a game would look identical on all three consoles, not are the Revolution´s graphics necessarily on par with its competitors´ graphics.
Middleware packages, especially ones like Unreal Engine 3 that have a large PC client base, are designed to be scalable. In other words, sure it will run on the Revolution, but don't expect it to have the eye candy turned up to 11.So this piece of news says less about graphics capabilities but more about the availability of mature games on all three systems by means of easy to use middleware tools.
That being said, this is promising news for any hopes of seeing games ported to all three next-gen consoles. Developers who use software like Epic's engine will not only save themselves from reinventing the graphics wheel every game, but they'll also find it easier to scale their app across all three next-gen platforms, making us happy gamers.
Sources: Creative Heads, Joystiq
Thanks to: Revolution Report, Luca S.
Now, make the FPS for all three systems, make it so that they can all log on to some online multiplayer action, and then watch as the Revolution users lay waste to the PS3 users.
ReplyDeleteMmmh thinking about FPS ... since the revmote come in standart, why not releasing a gun shell + IR sensor to be put on wear.
ReplyDeletelive Q-zar is great :D
nintendo NEVER suffered in terms of graphics, nor will the Revolution.
ReplyDeleteMark my words.
Besides, let's make a little summary again:
Nintendo spent (almost)the same amount of money for their chips, hollywood and broadway as microsoft paid for X360 chip development! so what for? for non-state-of-the-art chips? never!
Well, but Resident Evil (4) looked almost exactly the same on PS2, so if this graphical bomb is playable on a 294 MHz (CPU) and 147 MHz-clocked (GPU) Playstation, i expect some REALLY great things. BUT not all developers are working their butts off, to gain this graphicsquality! And that's sad!
ReplyDeleteP.S. I visited a friend of mine yesterday, who owns a Xbox360, and i played it, and lemme say - PDZ DOESN'T look Nextgen at all neither does DoA4, it looks like DoA3 only sharper!
It means that we shouldn't worry about the Revolution's graphics, they will be great and the gameplay will be better than the 360 and PS3. The latter we already knew.
ReplyDeletei think you meant "delayed" not denied?!
ReplyDeleteWell, whatever!
I hope Zelda: Twilight Princess will NOT be playable with the Revolution-controller. This is a gamecube title, and we WILL get a revolution-zelda sooner or later!
I want to play this game. And i want it on gamecube, and i want it SOON! there's no reason for me, to wait so long, only for some controller gimmicks.
The game is a gamecube title from the groundup, and i really want EAD to take the extratime to add some more features to the game itself.
I should probably email my news instead of posting in the comments next time?
ReplyDeleteProps @ snes_link, thats funny, and too true. About the graphics, everyone at Nintendo has said over and over again to not worry about graphics (which is exactly why people are worrying about them), if you trust Nintendo enough to want the Revolution before you have even really seen what it can do, I think maybe you can trust them when they tell you not to worry about graphics falafelkid has posted many times about the diverse ways that an underpowered console could make up in graphical prowess through specialized hardware. Fact is though, we won't KNOW FOR SURE what the graphics look like until E3 because Nintendo won't release anything and even if the was a REAL leak on the net, it would be difficult to distinguish/find among all the fakes. @ arsenis and shoxware, Nintendo has never said that Twilight Princess will NOT work with the controller. Point in fact, it would make alot of sense if it did. Unfortunatly if it DOES use the new controller it will certainly come out at Revolution launch, not sooner, as Nintendo will see alot of sense in having such a killer app to push Revolutions out the door. And to say that they are delaying TP to take advantage of "gimmicks" with the new controller is debasing. How can you support the concept of the Revolution and think that the people who invented the controller would put something in THEIR game that wasn't Nintendo-perfect? Personally, I hope that TP WILL work with the new controller simply because I plan on owning them both and if you do too then exercise some patience.
ReplyDeleteHey guys, I have an awesome "fanboy" vid for nintendo... check it out
ReplyDeletehttp://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2686716?htv=12&htv=12&htv=12&htv=12&htv=12
btw...i found it on the Revolution Report forums...
ReplyDeleteSince everybody is talking about graphics again I've got a question for you.
ReplyDeleteRemember back in the days of N64:
http://ign64.ign.com/articles/064/064678p1.html
Would something like this be possible with the Revolution? From 480P to 720P?
wow i didnt realize IGN has been around that long, i think i first heard of them like 2 or 3 years ago
ReplyDeleteOn Ign there is a surreal answer of Perrin Kaplan (master Jedi Perrin??? LOL) on when we'll have some news regarding Revolution. In fact it seems (as expected)we'll have to wait until E3 to fully know anything but some info will come "now and then"
ReplyDeletehttp://revolution.ign.com/articles
/684/684262p1.html
Luca S. (Italy)
P.S. I've too much free time to spent those days seems my customer are afraid by the snow!
Hi Luca S. Thanks for the good link. Here´s the quote:
ReplyDelete"Information about upcoming products never arrives fast enough for anyone with a good appetite, and this is no different. However, as history has shown, Nintendo doesn't tend to invite people to the table until the meal is ready to serve. Now, we don't want you to be absolutely starving by the time you sit down, so we will have a few enticing bits now and then.
Remember, (IGN is) special to us and when we're ready to reveal what's so unique and innovative about Revolution, you'll be amongst the first on the planet to get your hands on it so you can tell your readers what emotion you experienced playing it. Until that important and energizing day, please continue to get plenty of exercise and sleep, and eat a balanced diet!"
All systems use those techniques or will.
ReplyDeleteUnreal engine 3 uses parallax mapping, NOT cube/displacement.
ReplyDeleteOoooo! Budda-Budda-BURN!
ReplyDeleteHey, I don't know whether I'm right about this but...
ReplyDeleteNow it should be exactly 100 more days until the Nintendo pre-E3 show takes place in Hollywood!
Still 2,400 hours full of fakes and wannabe Revolution-projects in the making, quite a long time...
I hope Falafelkid kicks Reggie's ass for being so quiet about the Revolution once he meets him at E3! Just kidding :-)
Und: gute Arbeit, Falafelkid! Ich verfolge schon ewig (stillschweigend) deinen Blog und bin immer wieder erstaunt, wie professionell und teilweise auch extrem du die "Neuigkeiten" hinterfragst, und nahezu täglich neue Infos zum Thema auftreibst! Damit konntest du bei mir sogar RTL2 aufwerten... ;-)
Mach weiter so!
Tom
This is really really weird. I think the name of the Revolution will change to RS. Nintendo RS.
ReplyDeleteCheck this really weird blog out. Nintendo-RS.Blogspot.com
There you go. I forgot you could link to it.
ReplyDeletehe, he :)
Yup. And it says rumoured right behind the title.
ReplyDeleteright iv read all your bitching and wining here are the revolution specs yes there real and iv just got hold of a revo dev kit im not disclosing what company i work for cpu 1.2ghz broadway dualcore gamecentric 2 meg catch silicon die copperwire design ultra efficant ultra small gaming power above top spec p4 ht///gpu hollywood embedded 400mhz with 24mb 400mhz 1ts ram on the chip massive texture catch and z buffer plus aditional on chip vram///op catch 72mb 1t sram 400mhz///32mb access ram 72 plus 32 = 104 thats were the rumor of 104mb ram came from 32 bit dsp embedded on hollywood at 100mhz 5.1 digital and pro logic 2x with zero hit on cpu ps3 and 360 have no dsp they process sound thru cpu 512mb flash drive upgradable panasonic priority drive based on panasonics rom disc dvd recorders 10gb max storage loading times data stream speeds in access of a 32 times speed dvd drive plus laser reads iner edge to outer edge like gamecube data streaming and loadtimes 3/4 times faster than 360s slow dvd drive hollywood contains advanced z buffer and mapping tricks in hardware all other parts of the gpu are like flipper but far more in line with currant top spec pc cards power whole system is synced and clock balanced and runs with ultra efficancie all above 100% true
ReplyDeleteNobody gives a fuck about you or your fancy specs.Nuff said.Cheers.
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