In an interview at the GameStart gaming convention last week with Bloodborne Producer Masaaki Yamagiwa, we asked him what the target resolution and frame-rate was for the upcoming action-RPG. Yamagiwa noted that while they “haven’t made an official announcement yet but they will probably go for 30fps since that’s what they found to be the best fps (frames-per-second) to play action games.”
Oh boy, lock to glorified slide show if old
Link:
http://www.playstationlifestyle.net...ts-the-best-for-action-games-claims-producer/
EDIT:
I was contacted by Playstation Lifestyle directly with an audio recording of said interview:
[Interview was pulled on Sony's request] (Maybe someone with language skills can retranslate the respective part? however the translator, or is that Masaaki? Clearly states what was written on Playstation Lifestyle)
Furthermore Masaaki Yamagiwa tweeted this:
EDIT2:
Our resident OddMorsel is shedding some light onto this situation:
Here is what was actually said in the interview:
Journo: "What frame rate and resolution are you targeting?"
Translator: "Resolution and framerate... have you decided these yet?"
Yamagiwa: "The resolution is going to be 1080p. As for the frame rate, well, stretching it to 60, with how this game is.. Demon's couldn't do it either, well I guess we probably won't be able to make it up to 60... It sounds like I'm making excuses but, anyway we're targeting 1080p 30fps.
Translator: "First of all it's going to be ..." (makes up a bunch of shit that Yamigawa didn't actually say, talking about action games being best at 30fps)
Yamigawa (interrupting): "well it's not ... I mean no matter how I say it, it's going to come out like an excuse I'm afraid"
Translator: "well, from the first they are not targeting 60fps because ..." (more conjecture)
I don't think the translator was necessarily bad, I think he just tried to fill in the gaps and didn't realize that even the details and nuances are things that the fan base wants full clarity on.
I've done JP <-> ENG interpretation before and the languages are constructed so differently that it does require a bit of conjecture and filling in the gaps to make a cohesive point. If I had to take a guess I'd say that he's referencing something he heard at another time or maybe a point that was brought up earlier in the interview.
EDIT 3:
Official word from the translator:
EDIT 4:
Playstation Lifestyle just contacted me, that they updated the article with the following:
Sony has reached out to PlayStation LifeStyle to further shed light to the whole situation and has issued the following statement courtesy of Arata Naito, SCE Asia Marketing representative:
There was some miscommunication in that particular Q&A in which the subtle nuance was misunderstood.
Yamagiwa-san would like to clarify that 1080p/30fps is what Bloodborne is going for considering its game designs, but never meant that it’s the best choice for all action games in general.
Personal Note/Opinion: So Playstation Lifestyle did only report what they thought was said in the interview since they had no reason to believe in a fault of the translator. They have been very cooperative in clearing this situation up, and contacted me with every information (the original audio file/ Sony's responses) they could provide, and I appreciate that very much. I think Playstation Lifestyle did a really good job handling this situation.
I hope I did a half decent job of keeping this OP up to date.
