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Namco-Bandai on the PS3
Gamasutra: So [Mobile Suit Gundam: Crossfire] is being developed internally at Bandai? Hirofumi Inagaki: Yes, that’s correct. GS: The other [Mobile Ops: The One Year War, Xbox 360] is being done externally? HI: Yeah, that’s done by an outsourcing company. GS: OK, just checking. So how have you found working with the PS3? HI: I think there are a lot of possibilities with the hardware, and there were lots of things we’ve wanted to implement in games for quite a while but couldn’t, which the PS3 makes possible.
GS: Is the Cell processor easy to work with, using multiple cores and all? HI: One aspect of the Cell that’s been really helpful is the physics simulation. We can use it in the game to enhance realism, like with location-specific damage and things like that. GS: Has the processor itself been easy to figure out, even with a young library? HI: Definitely hard! The library is basically zero, we’re starting from scratch, and there are no programmers out there who really know how to use it well yet. So it’s a challenge. GS: Do you feel that it’s significantly a step above the 360 in power? HI: I’ve never worked on the Xbox, so I have no idea, but in general I do feel there are more possibilities with the PS3. |
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