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Companies like Sony and Nvidia have been making a case for 3D gaming for some time now, but EA Sports president Peter Moore isn't quite sold on the tech as of yet. Speaking with CVG, the former Microsoft executive remained unconvinced that a potential tradeoff in visual fidelity for the sake of 3D is worth it to gamers.
"I've seen a couple of our games running in 3D [behind closed doors]," Moore confessed. "There are some cool moments, but there is a cost for my development teams to do it. There is a tax on the hardware -- you know, you need two cameras. There is a framerate issue."
"I don't think gamers want to sacrifice a smooth framerate," he added. "In other words, games that are current running at 60fps going down to 30 just for 3D."
The EA Sports exec continued, "The other thing is, you've got to be able to play the game. You play FIFA from a top-down perspective. You play Madden from a top-down perspective. The higher the camera is, the less the impact of 3D happens to be."
Moore might not sound too enthused at the moment, but that doesn't mean we'll never see an EA Sports title in 3D. The company plans to keep a close watch on 3D technology -- Nintendo's 3DS in particular, which Moore called a "very different experience."
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