BioWare is 'really pumped' to be working on PS3
- Posted July 9th, 2009 at 10:59 EDT by Mike Harradence
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BioWare’s vice president of entertainment and miscellaneous Greg Zeschuk has said that the company is ‘really pumped’ to be working on its debut project for Sony’s PlayStation 3 console in the form of Dragon Age: Origins.
The fantasy RPG romp marks the first time that the developer has worked on a Sony platform since it churned out shooter MDK 2 for PlayStation 2 way back in early 2001.
Speaking in regards to working with PS3, Zeschuk, who also serves as vice president at Electronic Arts, told VideoGamer.com: “It's been interesting,” adding, “It's actually been quite good. We discovered a couple of things we did were pretty beneficial. We have multiple threads going for the game and it looks really great on the PS3. You can just throw them on all different processors, for example.”
“It's new. Because we already had experience on 360, that kind of got ahead a little bit, but now we pretty much caught up. Actually it was very exciting. People on the team were really pumped to work on it. They were like, wow. We have a lot of people that like doing new stuff and trying new things, and they were like, wow another platform, can't wait! It's been good.”
The executive also addressed its reasoning for backing Microsoft platforms in recent years, revealing the decision boiled down to having worked with the U.S. giant for half a decade.
“It's going to be exciting having a PS3 game out finally. We only did one PS2 game – MDK2 on PS2. It's not like we have anything against Sony by any stretch. It's just that from a publishing perspective we worked with Microsoft for five years - that made it so easy to focus on Xbox and we didn't have to worry about the PlayStation platforms. But now, since being part of EA, it just makes complete sense. It's something we're totally behind.”
Furthermore, not only are the firm psyched to be working on Sony’s black box, it appears they’ve also worked out all the kinks in regards to developing on the platform:
“It's not bad actually,” said Zeschuk. “It's funny, we had extra graphic memory left over on the PS3. We were like, wow! So we actually started putting some of the audio bits in there and stuff. It's a function of effort. Overall, pretty happy with how it's turning out.”
Finally, Zeschuk touched on any possible differences between the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of Dragon Age: “Oh yeah. I can't say absolutely for sure. There will be elements that will be better... the actual graphics hardware is different on them, so one may be brighter than the other, but definitely the content will be absolutely the same."
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DragonWraith
- 11:14am BST - July 9th, 2009
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With this, and admitting Mass Effect 2 isn't a Microsoft exclusive.
Next up: Mass Effect on the PlayStation 3. Believe it people.
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nickrobbins
- 11:27am BST - July 9th, 2009
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this shows that this company is much bettter then others (i think we all know who i mean :P) at least this company embraces new platforms and aren't afraid to learn new things.
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Stoffinator
- 11:41am BST - July 9th, 2009
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He says it will look really good on the PS3. But in the end it will end up looking sub par compared to the 360 and PC version.
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masonmcglasson
- 12:51pm BST - July 9th, 2009
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Well I believe that this is their first game for PS3 and if they don't do a lot of testing then this could end up being worse than the 360/PC version (due to the fact that it's their first PS3 title). Also why do developers say it will be identical (acting like we should be happy/grateful) when they know damn well that the PS3 one could look/perform much better. I'm tired of having the same quality when PS3 version could look and play much better.
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ahernandez2005
- 12:57pm BST - July 9th, 2009
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Hi is the combat turn based or action for this game? Looks like a cool game.
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west_end_matt
- 1:29pm BST - July 9th, 2009
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I was like, wow, at how many times they said they were "like, wow"!
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solidsomething83
- 3:12pm BST - July 9th, 2009
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"It's not like we have anything against Sony by any stretch. It's just that from a publishing perspective we worked with Microsoft for five years - that made it so easy to focus on Xbox and we didn't have to worry about the PlayStation platforms. But now, since being part of EA, it just makes complete sense. It's something we're totally behind.” ---- translation, EA forced us to work on the PS3 so now we have to step up our game and do what they tell us
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DigitalBeast
- 3:49pm BST - July 9th, 2009
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@7 Sad sad sad... Did the 360 smack you or something? Did it cheat on you? Seriously people...
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PS3-The Ultimate Machine
- 4:04pm BST - July 9th, 2009
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Doesn't look all that interesting imo,Mass Effect is better.They should port it.
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XAversionX
- 6:04pm BST - July 9th, 2009
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Im glad to hear it :)
now i can buy ME2 for PS3 without those slow load times on 360.
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GunTeng
- 6:26pm BST - July 9th, 2009
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@Stoffinator
"the actual graphics hardware is different on them, so one may be brighter than the other, but definitely the content will be absolutely the same."
Subpar?
You are probably right, but if its just a difference in brightness/contrast....thats not really a big deal.
Either way, its good to see companies actually starting to put in some effort....they will reap the rewards if they make good titles.
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hush404
- 8:14pm BST - July 9th, 2009
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Nice to see anothe dev company impressed with what they see in the PS3 rather than just that fat slob over at valve spewing like a rabbid monkey about how "Sony should just scrap it and start over".
Perhaps this bodes well towards a possibility of Mass Effect on PS3?
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