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Deep Silver: "There is a clear technology gap"
Posted: 24.10.2011 14:15 by Comments: 1
Risen 2's brand manager Daniel Oberlerchner has slated other studios who try and have the same experience across all platforms, stating that there is a clear "technology gap".

Speaking to Strategy Informer in an interview, Oberlerchner said that trying to have the same quality across the Xbox 360, PS3 AND PC "doesn't make any sense".

"Some studios say they are going to have the same quality across all platforms, which is to say you take the weakest platform - the Xbox 360 - and you have the same crappy textures for the Playstation 3 and the PC."

"We want to make sure everything is maxed out on every platform - for example on the Playstation 3, it is a bit better in terms of Aliasing, but then extra memory is going to be better on the Xbox 360 because the PS3 doesn't have direct memory - so it has to share everything."

The original Risen was criticised for having a poor console port, however Risen 2 is being developed from the start with all platforms in mind to provide the "optimum" experience. It is due out early-to-mid 2012.

You can read the rest of the interview here.

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By nocutius (SI Elite) on Oct 24, 2011
nocutius
As long as the PC version is a proper PC version that's all i care about.
The mentality that the games need to be identical over all platforms might have made sense in the past but now consoles are simply too old for that, so i totally agree with him.