Sony is currently working on the upcoming Playstation 3 firmware which will enable stereoscopic 3D gaming and Blu-Ray movie playback. Tameem Antoniades, co-founder of Heavenly Sword developer Ninja Theory, believes that lack of processing power will limit the console's 3D possibilities severely.
"The problem is that to do 3D properly you need to render 60 frames per second, per eye. And at least a 720p resolution [per eye]," he noted. "So in essence that's 1080p rendering at 120 frames per second, and the current generation can only process very rudimentary graphics at that spec."
But that doesn't mean that stereoscopic 3D gaming is impossible. "I think the technology's limited now, so you won't be able to play stuff that looks like Avatar -- the movie -- in 3D," Antoniades explained. "Every generation has to be at least five-to-ten times more powerful than the last, so I think we'll get there in the next generation. I think that will be totally revolutionary for games."
Sony plans to enable stereoscopic 3D through a firmware update this and promises to release patches for Killzone 2, LittleBigPlanet, Gran Turismo 5 and other unspecified games that will make them playable in stereoscopic 3D on compatible TVs.
