After snubbing Nintendo’s new 3DS for not being able to support the Unreal Engine, Epic’s Mark Rein has taken the industry diss one further, and openly endorsed the competition.
“I love console game experiences. I love, love, love playing Gears of War, Call of Duty, Borderlands – I just love those kinds of games. And you really need the Dualshock type controls to do it effectively,” he told Eurogamer over at GDC. “The NGP delivers it in spades. You really do want to play those kinds of games on it for sustained periods of time. Sat down on your couch, or in a hotel room, or somewhere you don’t have a big TV. It’s a fantastic experience.”
He goes on to compare the handheld with full-sized consoles, saying it represents more or less the same kind of investment.
“Yeah, I’m going to buy one,” he added. “All I can ever do is speculate on what I think. That’s the trap people get caught in, saying ‘Well, I’d like one, but nobody else is going to buy one.’ No – you need to stop that sentence at ‘I’d like one.’ When you get your hands round that device and you see some of the things that are going to ship on it, you’ll go ‘Want. Want, want, want.’”
The NGP is scheduled to launch towards the end of the year.
