BioWare boss "blown away" by 3DS

By Tom Bramwell Published 15 July, 2010

Enough to do a game? "It will depend."

BioWare co-founder and boss-man Dr. Greg Zeschuk has told Eurogamer that he was "blown away" by the Nintendo 3DS at E3.

What's more, he sounds quite open-minded about the possibility of doing a game for it one day, despite BioWare's reputation for whopping RPGs on technically demanding formats.

"We could because we've done a DS game before," Zeschuk told Eurogamer in an interview published today.

"So imagining it, it's pretty similar. It will depend. The thing I'm curious about on 3DS is, what else does it bring to the table? Is it going to be wireless? What kind of backend connectivity are they going to do? That is what excites me."

Zeschuk said he "loved" the platform. "I saw it at E3 and I was blown away. I'm not sure if it'll bring that much more to the table. But that's going to be enough to reinvigorate the DS market.

"For us to want to jump in, you largely have to have a lot more online stuff going on there. You're clearly limited in how flexible you can be on the backend."

Zeschuk also talked to Eurogamer about Dragon Age 2 ("You can't please everyone") and progress on Star Wars: The Old Republic.

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  • Stuz359 #1 2 years ago

    Awesome. Is Jade Empire MS owned or do Bioware have the rights?

  • Garibaldi #2 2 years ago

    I feared this would fit right in with the tide of 'amazing hardware!', 'revolutionary', and 'fills my head with possibilities!', then when it actually comes to the developers making good on their enthusiasm we end up with shovelware shite.

    To his credit though Greg Zeschuk is actually pretty reserved, bit of a relief.

    Edited by 1 at 15/07/10 @ 14:42

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  • X3Entente #5 2 years ago

    these nintendo fellating stories are getting boring

  • Cadence #6 2 years ago

    Is fellating a word?

    Oh the internet tells me it is. My apologies.
    Edited by 1 at 15/07/10 @ 15:45

  • wellzy4eva #7 2 years ago

    "What's more, he sounds quite open-minded about the possibility of doing a game for it one day, despite BioWare's reputation for whopping RPGs on technically demanding formats. "

    Did I miss something or didn't Bioware make a DS game (Sonic Chronicles) or has that been banished from the history books due to not being upto Bioware's usual standards?

  • makeamazing #8 2 years ago

    Yet more gaming news of companies who might be thinking about thinking about something. :D

  • bionutz #9 2 years ago

    which was their game for ds?

  • spekkeh #10 2 years ago

    God I love relatively independent developers that are openminded about new stuff on platforms they have no prior investment in.

    Yes it's a freaking loveless world I live in. Good on you Bioware.

  • hy4000uk #11 2 years ago

    so basically they're not doing a game

    EA's lineup for the 3DS sucks dick, and this retard is trying to make up as many excuses as he can for why he shouldn't do a 3DS game

    which is probably a good thing given how bad sonic chronicles was

  • CaoSlayer #12 2 years ago

    "For us to want to jump in, you largely have to have a lot more online stuff going on there. You're clearly limited in how flexible you can be on the backend."

    Translation: They only want to keep selling all that mostly pointless DLC.

  • hiddenranbir #13 2 years ago

    Awesome. Can't wait for what gritty, dark, mature rpg they put on the 3DS.

  • Razz #14 2 years ago

    Flexible backend eh?

    Tee hee! ^_^

  • Meho #15 2 years ago

    "which was their game for ds? "

    Sonic RPG. We all remember how well THAT went down, heh.