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Ubisoft: 3DS is powerful, it can handle Unreal Engine

Posted Mar 24, 2011 at 4:10AM EST by Ryan F.

Listed in: News Tags: 3D, Nintendo, Ubisoft, Unreal Engine

Contrary to what Epic’s own Mark Rein has previously stated, Ubisoft has claimed that they were actually able to run Unreal Engine on a 3DS.

"The 3DS is powerful, and we are able to run the Unreal engine on this console, which is pretty impressive for a handheld machine, and the 3D doesn’t affect the performance (thanks to my amazing programmers)," reveals Splinter Cell 3DS producer, Fabrice Cuny to GameSpot. "The architecture is different compared to a Wii or some other platforms that we had to work with here at Ubisoft Montreal.

"The 3DS can be much more comparable to a platform between a DSi and a Wii. We are able to create games anywhere from a puzzle game to very high-end game such as Splinter Cell 3D. The tools on the 3DS were brand new, and with every development phase, we had some tools with bugs and crashes. But with version after version, Nintendo provided us a set of tools and the support to help us debug and optimize the game."

Ubisoft is currently readying eight games for the 3DS that will be available in the first half of 2011. It includes Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell 3DS, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Shadow Wars, Rayman 3D, Rabbids 3D, James Noir's Hollywood Crimes, Driver Renegade, Combat of Giants Dinosaurs 3D and Asphalt 3D.

Via [GameSpot]

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3DS gpu uses fixed function shaders (which UE3 doesn't support) but not fragment shaders.This results in less flexibility for the programmers (as you're limited to a number of pre-defined graphical effects), but it also leads to longer battery life. certainly,it needs that for 3D double performance :)

+1 # RE: UE3 — DeltaDAWG 2011-03-24 12:02

Well that was a boatload of information to digest. Thanks for sharing!

# RE: Ubisoft: 3DS is powerful, it can handle Unreal Engine — PS360 Owner1 2011-03-24 07:46

It's the first time I read someone saying that 3DS is "powerful".

3DS is about PS2 alike graphics, or so.

+1 # ... — TheRockness 2011-03-24 08:38

Some would argue that the 3DS is NOT powerful, but the Unreal 3 engine IS flexible. These are definitely not Gears of War quality graphics.

-2 # RE: Ubisoft: 3DS is powerful, it can handle Unreal Engine — Techni 2011-03-24 09:46

which version does ubi have running?
cause epic only cares about the newest one

# you're right — Afrit 2011-03-24 17:24

They are using Unreal Engine 2.
www.destructoid.com/ubisoft-trumps-epic-gets-unreal-running-on-3ds-update--197134.phtml

# was sure about it — tailslol 2011-03-28 18:44

rebelion and infernal engines used by universal for ghostbuster pc ps3 360 and alien vs predator on 360 and ps3 are runing on the 3ds,they are similar to the unreal...
and dont forget mt framework powering all capcom games...

# lol — mike115 2012-04-08 20:31

Yea ubisoft is talking about UE2.0.The 3ds cant run it because that arm11 cpu cant run on UE3.0 plus the fixed pipelines on that pica gpu holds it back.Ps vita can tho..A9cortex 4 core cpu,gpu sgx 543mp4 runs it np.

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