Sony Computer Entertainment announced today that PhyreEngine 3.0 has been released to support game developers and publishers on both PlayStation 3 and its recently announced next generation portable entertainment system (codename: NGP).
PhyreEngine is a cross-platform game engine and tools, provided as source code under a license that allows it to be used by any PS3 or NGP game developers or publishers as well as by Tools & Middleware licensees in their products.
In the last few years, PhyreEngine has been used to power almost fifty titles from dozens of game studios globally and released on the PlayStation®Store or on Blu-ray Discs.
Support for NGP allows developers to easily target this new platform alongside PlayStation 3 and Windows, while ensuring state-of-the-art performance and features. The general consensus among developers is that the new version of PhyreEngine has brought several enhancements that made PS3 games development less painful and made porting games to NGP a few clicks away (although Sony has stressed that NGP game publishers and developers were instructed not to port PS3 games directly to NGP without reasonable modification.)
