Break Out Your Glasses…Or Your 3DS
News tipster Woun tells us of a new interview with Sonic Team head Takashi Iizuka with Japanese website Inside Games that raises the possibility of the next Sonic 4 episode incorporating 3D capabilities.
We don’t think we’re talking about 3D gameplay itself, though. We’re talking about 3D effects, like those seen on the 3DS, or on XBOX360 and PS3 with the proper equipment. Take a look at the roughly translated quote, and decide for yourself:
Specifically, “Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode II” has begun production was not only the style of today continue a 3D Sonic, “and that this gonna?” 3D-like and be surprised We wanted to make an action.
The original interview is here if you wish to draw your own conclusions. Sega has been very mum on Episode II, choosing instead to focus on Generations, so something like this may be the tip of a coming iceberg after Generations. Could 3D effects mean we see Episode II on the 3DS in some form, for example? It’s hard to tell on this alone, but we will stay on top of things. Thanks to Woun for tipping us. If you have news to share, be sure to share it with us by clicking Send News Tips at the top of every page.
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I hope it’s not on the 3DS because that means its gonna be getting S. Rush graphics.
I’m not a graphic whore but I wanna see Sonic 4: Ep. 2 in full HD/420p(Wii…) view and the 3DS will ruin that :/
@Nuzumaki
What.
Why would Ep. 2 being ported to 3DS mean it would have graphics from a game series on the previous generation of handhelds?
How would Ep. 2 being on 3DS downgrade the console versions any more than Ep. 1 being on the iPhone?
@Nuzamaki90
Either you’re a graphic whore or a Nintendo hater.
@x It’s dependent on how Episode II will look. Episode I’s graphics looked like a giant condom had been stretched over them, they were 2D with some minor 3D background models, and they weren’t terribly fantastic. The original DS could probably handle that.
But if Sonic Team (hopefully NOT Dimps) get their act together to produce graphics on par with Sonic Generations (which is 50/50), then there most probably will be a downgrade.
But if they stick to the same graphical style of Episode I, I totally agree with you.
I found a video!!! =)
@aTomic
They will. They’re going to undoubtedly go for a consistent look and feel, regardless of how lackluster things were in Ep.1.
That same desire for consistency might also affect how much they’re REALLY willing to improve the physics, sadly.
@x & Stephan
If I was a Nintendo Hater, I wouldn’t be playing Kirby, Super Mario, LoZ, Pokemon(oh yesh), and Star Fox on their consoles now would I?
If the 3DS could handle the graphics engine of the Wii, 360, PS3, and IPhone/Ipod then Sonic Rush/Colors/Gen, and many others wouldn’t look like what they do now. The 3DS was made the same way the DSI was made with the added 3D/2 Other features. If it could be like the Wii’s very own PSVita, it would. It’s not’
Exactly why it would be downgraded. Again if it could show graphics like the other versions of Sonic 4, then Sonic Rush/Colors/Generations would showoff an extreme sign of laziness by DIMPs and Sonic Team.
Face it, it’s not possible unless SEGA wants to look lazy with their newish titles. The 3DS can’t do it.
Bah. I don’t want to look like a troll, but I couldn’t care less for Sonic 4, 3D or no 3D.
@SJXD2
Good Find! I would send it into Tristan… This is some pretty good footage.
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@SJxd2
Thank you so much
Meh. Come on, Sega, you’ve been giving the classic fans what they’ve been begging for in every game since Unleashed. How about some nice modern stuff, huh?
guess who
“The 3DS was made the same way the DSI was made with the added 3D/2 Other features.”
Hahaaha woooooww.
Okay, well this conversation is over until you seriously educate yourself on the hardware of the 3DS.
Hahaha jesus.
@Nuzamaki90
If you check the 3DS’s hardware specs you will see that they are not just DSi but they are far superior, in fact it can do things that Wii cannot (as stated by Shiguru Miyamoto himself when he was talking about the graphics shaders in the 3DS). So the graphics will be like the Wii version of Sonic 4 or they could even be a bit better (considering that the game is being rendered on a smaller screen). Also, if you are questioning the graphics power of the 3DS look at games like Super Mario 3D Land, Kid Icarus, Resident Evil, Tekken 3D Prime, and Monster Hunter tri and 4, and you will realize that your argument has no foundation.
@AM
No. Foundation. At all.
3DS facts: It has more RAM than Wii. It has slightly programmable vertex shaders which Wii does not. Moreover it is portable, so it has low resolution screen – this justifies lower chip timing. I suppose it is a bit different with the CPU (ARM vs PowerPC? Really?) but still 3DS has some features Wii hasn’t.
Hmm. I think it will have 3D TV capabilities on the PS3 and 360, and I also think it will be on the Vita and 3DS. The Wii might actually be out….
@Nuzamaki90:
“The 3DS was made the same way the DSI was made with the added 3D/2 Other features.”
Watch this video, dummy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Es0xReoS2nA
As a matter of fact, look at freaking Sonic Generations 3DS.
Freaking tard doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
If the do, I wouldn’t complain.
@aTomic1998:
“But if Sonic Team (hopefully NOT Dimps) get their act together”
And what the hell is wrong with Dimps…
Because they make a mistake? Like everyone else? Freaking Sonic fanbase.
@DonnyKD
I know, right? Sonic Team made 2006, but they’re forgiven. Dimps made the Rush games, and people act like they don’t exist and bombard them with hate because they made Sonic 4 an extremely average game.
Please post more lists and copy pastes from Wikipedia I NEED IT!
I ran the bit through Bing translator and noticed there is a bit more to the answer he gives about the future of Sonic.
“Of course I think the following work. This time, one of 20 anniversary milestone in work was 2D and 3D are the things that Dove goodness. Also last year of 2-D ‘ Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode I ‘ and I 3D “Sonic colors’ was 2D and 3D are respectively will continue. Specifically ‘ Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode II ‘ is has begun production and 3D sonic continue now styles as well as the see of you’re under such a thing? ” I want to make a 3D action amazed with.”
He is talking about 2D and 3D gameplay styles not stereoscopic 3D, seems clear to me that he is talking about Sonic 4 continuing 2D Sonic and whatever 3D Sonic he is working on next. I think this article needs to updated with the whole quote to give it proper context.
@Donny
What was that supposed to prove? Have u even played, wait no, have u even seen Sonic Rush/Colors before? 99.8% chance that’s a no. Sonic Generations IS Sonic Rush/Colors with added gameplay and features. Just like how Super Mario Galaxy IS SMG 2 with added features. How Pokemon Emerald IS Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire with added features. How COD BLACK OPS IS COD MODERN WARFARE 2 with added features, and how HALO Reach IS Halo 3 with added gameplay and features. Dude, I can go on and on but none of this shit could get into your head. Your calling me a dummy? HA! Your not even good enough to be my average smarty. Quotes are things people use to add humor or other things to a conversation to add depth.
@Everyone else
I did make a mistake with my 3DS being the DSi line but that makes no difference. If the 3DS could run Sonic 4, it would have had a port by now, a “decent” Sonic game on the 3DS? Epic sales. It can’t though. If it could, Sonic Generations 3DS wouldn’t look like what it does now. Do you know how much rage and confusion would occur once people find out 2 different core/canon games of the same franchise running on 2 incredibly different engines were on the same console? It would make no fucking sense. Either a bigass “WE WERE LAZY WITH THE 1ST/2ND ONE” sign would appear in fans’ heads or people would be too confused to give a damn.
Like I said before, if Sonic 4: Ep. 2 was gonna be on the 3DS it would be confusing as shit because most people would be so confused, they would think that SEGA & DIMPS got lazy with Sonic Gen. 3DS and gave it extremely downgraded graphics or vice versa.
If the 3DS could run the according to SEGA, extremely better looking Sonic 4: Ep. 2, why didn’t Sonic Gen. 3DS get the same boosted graphics that it’s upcoming brother was getting? Especially since it’s on the same console.
SHAA! Most of u besides AM fail at logic.
@Nuzamaki: Super Mario Galaxy is Super Mario Galaxy 2 with added features? lolwut
You can’t say we fail at logic when you do too.
@Nuzamaki:
Oh wow, dude. You fail.
“if Sonic 4: Ep. 2 was gonna be on the 3DS it would be confusing as shit because most people would be so confused, they would think that SEGA & DIMPS got lazy with Sonic Gen. 3DS and gave it extremely downgraded graphics or vice versa.”
The hell? A 3DS game is WAYYY more powerful than a freaking WiiWare, PSN, or XBLA game.
Freaking graphics whore.
@Amuro lolwut? It is SMG 1 with added features? It’s all the same gameplay elements, same graphics engine, same characters, same ole. mario
The new things are all features: Planet/Spaceship Mario Hub, Level Map, few other things.
The hell is wrong with you lol? I just threw a giant logic bomb at your faces and you say I fail at it?
The day you understand what I’m talking about will be a sate to DIE for.
“If the 3DS could run Sonic 4, it would have had a port by now”
Or maybe they want to make the sequel for the 3DS, and not the prequel.
“Do you know how much rage and confusion would occur once people find out 2 different core/canon games of the same franchise running on 2 incredibly different engines were on the same console?”
What? The only “rage” and “confusion” I see is your ignorant rant. And since freaking when did having a portable version = the same game on a home console? That’s like saying “There’s going to be 2 Sonic Colors on the Wii because there’s a DS version!”
“Just like how Super Mario Galaxy IS SMG 2 with added features. How Pokemon Emerald IS Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire with added features. How COD BLACK OPS IS COD MODERN WARFARE 2 with added features, and how HALO Reach IS Halo 3 with added gameplay and features.”
F-f-fail, so… much… fail…
“Your not even good enough to be my average smarty.”
It’s not that hard to be your average. My 8 year old brother PASSES your “average”.
“If the 3DS could run the according to SEGA, extremely better looking Sonic 4: Ep. 2, why didn’t Sonic Gen. 3DS get the same boosted graphics that it’s upcoming brother was getting?”
Because fucking Generations PS3/360 IS NOT A DOWNLOADABLE TITLE, YOU IDIOT.
@Nuzamaki:
“lolwut? It is SMG 1 with added features? It’s all the same gameplay elements, same graphics engine, same characters, same ole. mario ”
Now I just see your an idiot fanboy.
“The new things are all features: Planet/Spaceship Mario Hub, Level Map, few other things.”
Dude, did you even play the flippin’ game.
“The hell is wrong with you lol? I just threw a giant logic bomb at your faces and you say I fail at it?”
DO YOU KNOW WHAT LOGIC MEANS, IDIOT?!
Nuzamaki, you just said Super Mario Galaxy 1 is Super Mario Galaxy 2 with added features. Basically, you said the sequel came before the original. You fail.
Also, you sound like a total graphics whore.
@Donny I’m beginning to think you don’t know what the hell your talking about.
If you were keeping up with the conversation, you would have noticed that AM said the 3DS would be able to power Sonic 4: Ep 1&2 waaaay better than the Wii. If it could, why the hell didn’t Sonic Gen. 3DS get the same epic treatment Ep. 2 is getting since they would be on the same console? Answer me that dummy lol
@Nuzamaki:
“you would have noticed that AM said the 3DS would be able to power Sonic 4: Ep 1&2 waaaay better than the Wii. If it could, why the hell didn’t Sonic Gen. 3DS get the same epic treatment Ep. 2 is getting since they would be on the same console? Answer me that dummy lol”
What the fuck are you spewing out of that “mouth” of yours?
Do you even KNOW WHAT THE HELL EPISODE 2′s GETTING, YOU GRAPHICS WHORE?!
@Amuro An easy typo fix. You fail for not noticing that. I’m not trying to sound like a whore, I’m explaining something that you 2 idiots don’t seem to be understanding.
@Donny
HAVE U PLAYED SMG 1 OR 2? Lol most likely not. Do you understand anything at all? Lol modt likely not. I said Halo R. is Halo 3 with added features and gameplay, u said it’s a fail, I lol’d so hard it’s not even normal. You said it was a fail when I said Halo R. is Halo 3 with added gameplay and features. That was so idiotic dumbass. You even contraadicted yourself a few times. Your an idiot mate, it’s incredibly obvious now.
Do you even know what a graphic whore is? Are you some little kid not knowing what the fuck he is talking about? Jesus Christ bro
@Nuzamaki:
“HAVE U PLAYED SMG 1 OR 2?”
Eleven times. There’s a lot of differences between the two. It’s like fucking saying UNLEASHED is the same as GENERATIONS.
“I said Halo R. is Halo 3 with added features and gameplay, u said it’s a fail”
And I’m still right, you still are a fail.
“You said it was a fail when I said Halo R. is Halo 3 with added gameplay and features. That was so idiotic dumbass. You even contraadicted yourself a few times. Your an idiot mate, it’s incredibly obvious now.”
LOL I love it when morons think they can piece together stuff. That’s such a dumb conclusion, you can’t even explain yourself. You are so full of shit, EVERYONE ELSE AGREES.
And way to derail a topic like an idiot who’s too dumb to figure out what he’s talking about.
@Nuzamaki:
“Do you even know what a graphic whore is? Are you some little kid not knowing what the fuck he is talking about? Jesus Christ bro”
You know, everything you just said perfectly describes you.
A typo so easy to fix that you made it twice. Good job.
Also, now everyone but you and AM are idiots? Nice job alienating yourself.
@Amuro:
The kid’s delirious. He just blurts out stuff and hopes it makes sense.
@Nuzumaki
There’s a reason there’s only one person with your viewpoint on this.
It’s because you’re wrong.
Why didn’t 3DS get a port of Ep. 1? Maybe because the 3DS came out half a year after Episode did, and the 3DS’ online store launched even later than that. If Ep 2 is coming to 3DS maybe Ep. 1 will come along with it. Right now though neither of them are worthy of a cartridge release on their own and the online store really has nothing on it yet period.
Anyway, putting that stupid piece of logic aside.
Are you really so blind and so stupid that you can’t recognize the difference between a 2D, sprite based game like Sonic 4 and Sonic Rush, and a fully 3D real-time rendered game like Sonic Generations?
Are you really that ignorant about game construction? I mean really? Cause this is probably the stupidest freakin’ thing I’ve ever seen someone say on this site.
@X
“…this is probably the stupidest freakin’ thing I’ve ever seen someone say on this site.”
He’s tied with Ceejus. XD
@Stephan: Don’t jinx it!! Dammit, now he’s gonna come back and infect us all with his retardation.
But in all seriousness, that has got to be some of the most retarded things I’ve ever read on this forum. And that’s saying something.
Someday someone is going to come along and teach this kid what a polygon is and how a processor.
But that someone is not me and that day is not today.
I would bet my life that he thinks the 3D effect is just something the screen does and not that it has anything to do with internal processing.
*processor works
@Amuro Where exactly? I’d kindly like to know
@Donny Dude, why are you here? Your answers to my comments are so idiotically made it’s disgusting to say the least. You make no sense, none at all, I really think your only commenting to troll in a argument your to ignorant to win/keep up.
@x The hell are you talking about bro? That’s exactly what I was trying to get into your heads, if Sonic 4 Ep. 2 appeared on the 3DS with the graphics of Ep. 1, it would seem Sega got lazy with it which would cause rage. If it came with these new, epic graphics one question would be “Why didn’t Sonic Gen. 3DS, the 20th anniversary for Sonic get such awesome treatment?”
What game do you know, has had something like this happen? Skyward Sword seems to be LoZ’s 25th anniversary celebration, which is 5 years after Twilight Princess = New techmology, better treatment. Are you really so blind and stupid to not notice that problem?
@Myself That final sentece was directed towards my Sonic argument, not the LoZ ref.
@Nuzumaki
…Who the hell said that Episode 2 was going to have “New epic graphics?”
Could you please continue the petty bickering? I find it most intriguing.
@Nuzamaki90
Sonic Generations 3DS was created without either DIMPS or Sonic Team knowing much about the 3DS and they stated in their interview that they had to do a lot of trial and error before, this would explain why the graphics are not really as good as they could have been. The 3DS’s development also started after the development of the console versions of the game (in fact in the Nintendo Power interview, Iizuka stated that there was a Wii version of the game but it was aborted in favor of a 3DS version), this short development time did not really allow them to fully explore the powers of the 3DS.
Sonic 4 Episode II however is a multiplatform release and porting it to 3DS should not be that much of a hassle (especially considering that they will most likely release it for earlier iDevices (like iPod Touch 2nd generation) which have weaker specs then the 3DS). Also, Sega could technically port Sonic 4 from the iDevices to the 3DS, as the specs of the earlier iDevices that also ran Sonic 4 episode I match but who knows why they are not doing that (if it was my guess I would say that it is because the eShop on the 3DS is still very far away from maturity and there is a major revamp of the 3DS’s online system expected by November).
For Sonic 4 Episode II on Nintendo consoles I am expecting that they might abandon the Wii because of the WiiWare storage limitations (which is unfortunate, but they will likely do that because they did it with Sonic CD and they did have some trouble fitting Sonic 4 episode I on the Wii) and they might release the game on the 3DS (which does not have a storage limitation) and/or the Wii U (which does not have the storage limit, but it is also an HD console and it has the ability to play older WiiWare [thus people can play Sonic 4 episode 1 on it before moving on to episode 2]).
Watwaitwaitwait… did Nuzumaki just say “epic treatment” in regards to Sonic 4?
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Sonical thinks we forgot about him making an ass of himself in the Sky Sanctuary reveal thread.