Don’t forget, Flash runs on game consoles.

Posted on April 2nd, 2007 by admin.
Categories: Uncategorized.

There’s an important fact that I think has gotten lost in all the shuffle of all the recent news on Flash Lite and FlashCast.

There is a Flash Player available on all the major game console platforms.

- Nintendo Wii
- Playstation 3
- Playstation Portable (PSP)
- Xbox 360

So what does that really mean? Well, at the moment, not much. :)

But as Flash evolves I definitely see it becoming a more viable game development platform. We’ve already seen Flash games on the web become extremely popular, so popular that some Flash games like fl0w and Alien Hominid later graduated to full-fledged console games. Flash is already becoming a popular development platform for mobile phone games because of the quick development time and ease of portability. I think it’s just a matter of time before Flash evolves to the point where it would be a legitimate platform for a dedicated gaming machine.

Now the hardcore gamers out there will say that fl0w was pretty and all, but it didn’t have the eye popping graphics of a usual 3D console title. That’s very true, but Flash is getting to the point where it can do some pretty interesting 3D stuff. Papervision3D is one of the better Flash 3D engines available out there, and it’s got a pretty damn fun X-Wing demo too (but I would suggest using the options to turn invert mouse off) :)

Flash isn’t ready to be a serious console game platform yet, but the possibilities are there.

[tags]Flash, Wii, PS3, fl0w, Alien Hominid, PSP, PaperVision3d[/tags]

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