Dead Rising 3, right now, is the game that’ll make me buy an Xbox One. While others are drooling over the mech-fighting in TitanFall, but that doesn’t interest me at all. Instead, I’d rather slice up the undead with a spinning blade of my own construction when I do get an Xbox One. Here’s the thing though – the game was originally intended to grace the Xbox 360.
Yes, somehow Capcom Vancouver though they’d be able to cram Dead Rising 3 on to the current Xbox – until they realised that there was just no way that it would work out.
“In terms of building the game, we originally developed it on PC and everything we were doing was breaking the bank on [Xbox] 360. The number of zombies, the streaming stuff we wanted to do, memory budgets for the number of environments and items and physics and all of that stuff,” Mike Jones, Producer at Capcom Vancouver revealed to Siliconera.
So they made the choice to switch to next-gen, which has obviously increased the size and scope of the game.
“The biggest things for us have been the size of the world, the density of the world, the streaming spaghetti of getting everything working with no load zones and seamlessly streaming. Also, how we build missions in a much larger world like that – how we send you to different districts and how we get you to explore all of these nooks and crannies in the environment.”
The generational switch is probably a good thing, because the game is shaping up to be pretty incredible from everything I’ve seen. Here’s the latest video doc, right from the game’s creators.
Last Updated: July 22, 2013
Concerned
July 22, 2013 at 14:04
XBOX WON!
Jim Lenoir (Banana Jim)
July 22, 2013 at 14:10
X BOX WONTON NOODLE SOUP!!!
Admiral Chief Groot Wors
July 22, 2013 at 14:10
/strong you say? 😛
Jim Lenoir (Banana Jim)
July 22, 2013 at 14:11
SO STRONG! with extra GINGER!
Admiral Chief Groot Wors
July 22, 2013 at 14:11
And tea!
Jim Lenoir (Banana Jim)
July 22, 2013 at 14:16
Ginger tea is tasty… but I prefer GINGER BEER!!
RinceWind
July 22, 2013 at 14:19
Ginger?!
TiMsTeR1033
July 22, 2013 at 14:48
My gingerbread. your a good boi! yes you are.
Guest
July 22, 2013 at 14:49
Be glad your not this atleast
http://f.kulfoto.com/pic/0001/0018/2522y17537.jpg
TiMsTeR1033
July 22, 2013 at 14:51
atleast your not this
Andre116
July 22, 2013 at 20:37
Did you say Gingerbread man?
Admiral Chief Groot Wors
July 22, 2013 at 14:04
PC >>>>>>>>>>>>> XBOX
😛
OVG
July 22, 2013 at 14:07
It is CAPCOM, I will hold off until all 30 DLC packs, skins and endings are for free in the GOTY version.
RinceWind
July 22, 2013 at 14:09
Win 🙂
Jim Lenoir (Banana Jim)
July 22, 2013 at 14:11
LOL! Headshot
Admiral Chief Groot Wors
July 22, 2013 at 14:11
Oi, you missed a R there
CRAPCOM
OVG
July 22, 2013 at 14:13
Fixed
Admiral Chief Groot Wors
July 22, 2013 at 14:13
Good man
Concerned
July 22, 2013 at 14:13
Gotta respect your resolve, there’s just no way I’ll be able to wait, this will be a day one purchase for sure!!
OVG
July 22, 2013 at 14:15
$$$ 😛
RinceWind
July 22, 2013 at 14:19
Ouch
OVG
July 22, 2013 at 14:23
tee hee hee
Admiral Chief Groot Wors
July 22, 2013 at 14:08
Creators look insane, not a bad thing for this type of game
Trevor Davies
July 22, 2013 at 14:13
I would think they’d have realised it couldn’t work as planned on the 360 when they were designing it. Or they they never designed for it?
Martin du preez
July 22, 2013 at 14:14
Instead of making excuses (And trying to hype the bone) they should have done what Naughty Dog and Rockstar are doing,Bring out games that will be the crown achievement of current gen consoles and pushing them to the max.
Jim Lenoir (Banana Jim)
July 22, 2013 at 14:15
Amen!
Concerned
July 22, 2013 at 14:43
And then release it on a next gen console anyway? Cough cough Knack!
Martin du preez
July 22, 2013 at 14:46
wat?
Knack was never a Ps3 game to start with.
Concerned
July 22, 2013 at 14:47
It should be….
Martin du preez
July 22, 2013 at 14:50
I should be a ps3 game
Jim Lenoir (Banana Jim)
July 22, 2013 at 14:59
Me too, I’d be an awesome PS4 game! High def banana!!!
TiMsTeR1033
July 22, 2013 at 15:05
you would be banned in Austraila for offensive content hahaha
Troll Slayer
July 22, 2013 at 15:33
He wants a reason to use his pink dildo…I mean Move controller.
Martin du preez
July 22, 2013 at 15:48
You know me best Vaj slayer..uhm troll slayer! <3
Argentil
July 22, 2013 at 15:14
*Yawn* Wake me up when Capcom do something worthwhile.
DR3 isn’t pushing any next-gen boundaries.
andrew
July 28, 2013 at 18:52
its bull crap because some people cant get the xbox 1 right away with it being on top of xmas so people have to buy xbox 1 before they can play dead rising 3 bull shit i enjoyed the rest but not paying 430 pound 4 a comp just 2 play it fuck that