Yoshida: "Almost all" devs exploring 3D

By Tom Bramwell Published 22 June, 2010

Plus: GT5 has go-karts, track editor.

Sony worldwide studios boss Shuhei Yoshida has said that the majority of his developers are looking at 3D for their titles.

"Almost all WWS developers are researching how they can incorporate stereoscopic 3D technology into their games," the plainspoken exec told PlayStation.com.

"As these techniques are developed and shared among developers, we'll see more games utilising this cool new perspective."

Yoshida said that adding 3D to existing titles is "much more difficult" for a mixture of technical and logistical reasons.

"It is always better to adopt new technology into new titles, as the content can be created with stereoscopic 3D effects in mind," he explained.

Sony announced its 3D line-up at E3, including Gran Turismo 5, LittleBigPlanet 2, The Sly Collection and MotorStorm: Apocalypse.

Third-party support is coming from Crysis 2, Mortal Kombat 9, NBA 2K11, Shaun White Skateboarding, Ghost Recon: Future Soldier and TRON Evolution.

Speaking to PlayStation.com, Yoshida also said he had huge faith in Gran Turismo 5 to perform now that it finally has a solid US release date - 2nd November - and mentioned some new features.

"Gran Turismo 5 will offer gamers an experience more rich, more in-depth and more exciting than they might expect," he said, pointing to its comprehensive car and track listing but also damage modelling, night races and weather effect.

"These innovations are twinned with the option to join millions of like-minded individuals globally within the Gran Turismo community and to find a driving experience to suit, whether that is taking on the Top Gear test track, chucking cars around stunt arenas, go-karting, creating and sharing your own track or intense head-to-head races," he said.

"This time around Gran Turismo is likely not just to be the definitive driving experience but a definitive gaming experience full stop."

Check out our in-depth Gran Turismo 5 hands-on preview to find out why we're excited too.

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Comments (24) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • NewbieZilla #1 2 years ago

    Definitively shit.

  • RodHull #2 2 years ago

    Whilst I'm looking forward to racing around the Top Gear track, nothing in GT5 seems to be a progression over Forza 3.

  • tossetaz #3 2 years ago

    Go-carting and Track-editor - sound awesome - why have they kept that a secret for so long?

  • NotSoSlim #4 2 years ago

    Track editor, weather, day night cycles n the rest are not progressive over Forza? Heard it all now

  • UncleLou #5 2 years ago

    Whilst I'm looking forward to racing around the Top Gear track, nothing in GT5 seems to be a progression over Forza 3.

    Apart from the fact that it's a bit of a strange statement considering the features list, how does that even matter? Nothing in Halo was a "progression" over Half-Life. Doesn't mean it wasn't a fun game. Or do people only ever play one game in each genre these days?

    Weird.
    Edited by 1 at 22/06/10 @ 09:15

  • Vanmunt #6 2 years ago

    Rod get your head out of emu's ass... not a progression over forza 3, I spat my tea all over the screen reading that.

  • Doctor_What #7 2 years ago

    Can I revise that?

    "Almost all devs still trying to get a consistent 30fps and laughing hysterically at the suggestion that they will get a solid 60fps for 3D out of their engies."

  • Steroyd #8 2 years ago

    Haters may hate but even you have to appreciate that this stuff isn't DLC.

  • Mkwone #9 2 years ago

    I'm sure i've heard of a track editor some time ago, but not heard anything of it since. Go karts and stunt cars arena sounds interesting. Suprised we've not seen anything of it.

  • RobTheBuilder #10 2 years ago

    Finally a reason to consider owning GT5 as well as Forza 3: a Track Editor

    Let's hope it's a decent one...

  • Dark_Era #11 2 years ago

    Hopefully they show of the customisation, cos all they say about it when asked is "to be revealed later"

    Still buying it on day one all the same.

  • Mr_Brown #12 2 years ago

    I have always thought that track editor is what should be included in Forza 4. Will be a step back if there is no way of painting cars. For a friend of mine who is really into Forza 3, it's adeal breaker. They wouldn't consider going back without it. I might keep an eye put for this.

  • Steroyd #13 2 years ago

    The creator of GT has said that all of GT5's features will be revealed at Gamescom.

  • NotSoSlim #14 2 years ago

    Makes sense revealing at Gamescom due to Euro sales, hopefully a demo also would be great

  • drumbaby #15 2 years ago

    Why would any dev go anywhere near 3D after Msoft's proclamation?

  • Widge #16 2 years ago

    Was that the proclamation where they said 3D was going to become important?

  • Doctor_What #17 2 years ago

    @ drumbaby: because it takes around two years or more to make most big games.

  • kangarootoo #18 2 years ago

    @drumbaby

    Is that their proclamation about HD-DVD, or something else?

    ;)

  • 00.00.01 #19 2 years ago

    But...that's no excuse to keep us in €urope waiting longer. We're (financially) Playstations' biggest market and we deserve a global release date.
    .
    It sound all good though...Track-editor F.T.F.W!

  • Darren #20 2 years ago

    GT5 is certainly sounding more interesting with each new press release in the run up to its FINAL release. Granted, I'm not as excited about as I was when I bought my PS3 in 2007 but I can't argue with that feature list.

    Good as Forza Motorsport 3 was, it really hadn't moved on much from the superb original on the Xbox. It still had no weather, it lost the night time tracks from the first game, there's still only eight cars on the track, etc. - the only improvements were the framerate (30 fps to 60 fps), handling/physics and customisation features but you'd have expected those anyway moving up to far more powerful hardware.

    GT5 still has a lot to prove though as I wasn't exactly blown away by GT5 Prologue. It still felt very sterile, the sense of speed was poor and the A.I. remained bland and unchallenging.

  • SilentNinja92 #21 2 years ago

    Track editor?

    I cant imagine it being anything like modnation, itd be too difficult with that level of graphics... Maybe more like PGR where you already had a map to play around with. It could e something like theyve modelled entire areas of cities or something that existing tracks are set in. No idea tbh...

    Sounds like theres a lot to do in this game. Nascar, go karting, rally, normal racing. I suppose they'll stick an F1 car in there too.Considering all the weather options and things theres going to be an incredibly amount of choice in races.

    Im mostly looking forward to racing online with friends. Im thinking nascar smash up =P

    Edit: and as for Forza 3. That was a brilliant game and nothing will take that away. Though I expect this game to do better, mostly becuase after forza 3 was detailed this was pushed ack, no doubt to make double sre it'd be better. GT5 will be better becuase at the end of the day if its not, sony knows it'll be a huge embarrasment.
    Edited by 1 at 22/06/10 @ 15:32

  • Machiavellian #22 2 years ago

    Personally, I hope with everything that is being thrown into GT5 that we do not have a game that is ok at a lot of stuff but master of none.

  • Numbat #23 2 years ago

    GT5 has been promised for so long I reserve any excitement until I have read a selection of reviews of the full game. Then, I might just get excited about it. So many dates missed, and previous promises unrealised!

  • Murton #24 2 years ago

    Top Gear Test Track was already a huge selling point to what was already a guaranteed seller (car porn ftw) but Go-Karts and a Track Editor?

    Now that's definitely worth the wait. Roll on November.