Capcom’s upcoming zombie-hack fest Dead Rising 3 will run at 720p, the developer has confirmed. This has been chosen as the final resolution for the game despite that 1080p was initially planned for it.
Speaking in a recent interview with Eurogamer at an Xbox One preview event, Josh Bridge, Executive Producer with Capcom Vancouver confirmed that the game will indeed be running at 720p and 30FPS.
When asked about the native resolution for Dead Rising 3, Bridge stated that it will be nothing above 720p. “And I'm really happy with that, with the sheer amount of stuff we have in an open world game locked at 30fps, that's just brilliant. Of course our UI (user interface) runs at 1080 native on top, but no, we're a 720p game locked at 30fps.”
Moreover, asked about the company’s ambition related to a native 1080p resolution for the game, Bridge said that it was “not really something we actually set as a mantra.”
“When we first started there was no platform, it was PC and we were just targeting next-gen, and 1080, even before then we thought it'd be prohibitive to even consider that, because essentially you have to do everything twice, which is just massive when you think of it.”
“It's more important that the end image looks awesome - look at how much stuff is on screen, that's always been a Dead Rising sort of brand. That still looks really good, and that's been our goal. I hope it shows - just look at how much insane stuff is going on screen,” he added.
While the resolution has been already set for the game, there have been some difficulties bringing that kind of a resolution to the Xbox One for the game.
“It's been... Outside of infancy - every new platform launch, I've now learnt - it's always infancy on tools, and that's the back and forth with tools improving. It's very similar to a PC development environment, so that's been really cool.”
“Happy to not be cross-platform, to be honest - it's a huge challenge for a game like ours. We have to do very specific things with memory allocation and drivers to get our stuff running, and in the past it was like wow, it made our teams quite a bit larger having multiple leads,” Bridge added.
Dead Rising 3 is currently set to arrive as an Xbox One exclusive and will be launching alongside the console this November.