Sony recently revealed a lot of launch facts about the NGP. One of the British developers reported that Sony is looking to make games available on PSN the same day they release on Flash memory.
“NGP is a developer’s dream Sony is finally doing the things developers have been crying out for for years,” said the source, adding, “the Wipeout HD PS3 engine running on PS3 with no changes to the art platform. That means full resolution, full 60 frames per second. It looks exactly the same as it does on PS3 all the shader effects are in there.”
However, for a PS3/NGP release, SCE wants there to be some difference or connectivity between the two. Still, the development environment is described as roughly the same, though with some advantages.
“Sony has made it completely developer-centric this time,” the source added. “[The development kit] is really simple to plug in and use. It opens direct in Windows Explorer and you can see all systems on a network so you could, for example, update the firmware of multiple NGPs at once. A PS3 dev station can take three hours to set-up. This looks like it will take under 20 minutes. It just makes everything easier they’ve really thought about it this time”.
Source: Eurogamer
