With the new Sony PSP, codenamed NGP announced a new generation of handheld fighting the first turn, NGP will be the future industry 3DS war hot topic of discussion. But Nintendo and Sony in-fighting at the same time do not forget the new intelligent machine, flat machine on the impact of handheld games, the famous game company id Software founder and technical director John Carmack to think, 3DS and NGP may be the last generation to fully concentrate on the game the handheld device.
John Carmack to a recent interview that not only is big smart hand narrowing the technology gap between the handheld and the performance of their speed much faster than the latter.
He said that developers can now only be used for the original picture quality technology to the handheld intelligent machines in the game development related to the creation. Although the lack of cell phones and tablet DS,
PSP dedicated joystick, buttons for easy game, but the inner tube in the pocket for those who just want a device for mobile players, good enough on it.
Then he added: "smart phone game performance may eventually reach 80% of dedicated gaming platform, people like to bring smart phone, if it is up to 80% of the performance of a gaming device, it can meet the needs of many people in the game it ? all have this question, I do not know exactly. "
But now more and more game developers are moving to intelligent machines, who has produced Xbox360 "war machine" for Epic Games is currently developing games for Apple products.
John Carmack said that the reason why many developers do not want the smart machine, flat machine completely as a gaming device, it is because many consumers would rather spend 40 or 50 dollars for DS / PSP game (
psp accessories), do not want to spend a few dollars to download iPhone or the Android platform game.
Previously, he also said in an interview that he was a big fan of Apple's application store, id Software in the future development of the game for Apple is likely to exceed the number of DS or PSP (
wholesale psp accessories).
