I provided AV support for Interplay's Annual Sales Meeting a couple of
weeks ago. Asked them about some things:
Sony's Playstation blows away the other consoles (3DO & Sega Saturn,
mainly… no mention of Jaguar). It includes features not found in the
others, such as Radiosity ™ which is a method to render colored light
and shadows on surfaces, typically from lasers, explosions, etc. I've seen
it, and it is impressive.
Windows95 and Apple's Quickdraw 3d will provide new competition in the
gaming world with extensions that improve 3d poly rendering in real-time,
also, when the new 3d chips hit the market in new display boards, the
extensions will offload 3d computations to them.
When the VP of marketing asked about Amiga game demand, only the European
rep replied, stating "… very little except in Germany and Spain…".
-Steve