Factor 5 werkt al enige tijd aan Lair, een game met een grote draak die je met de SIXAXIS van de PlayStation 3 moet besturen. Met de ontwikkeling van het spel lijkt het wel goed te zitten.
Co-founder en president Julian Eggebrecht geeft aan dat het spel in de laatste stage van ontwikkeling gekomen is, en dat het nu vooral neer komt op tweaken en optimaliseren.
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"Basically, by all definitions, pretty much everything is there. Now it's optimization and really getting the difficulty curve right and really getting everything tweaked right. All of the systems are there. All of the unlocking-everything is there. Would I want to give it to you? No, because it needs to be tweaked right. It's a 80-90%, but those last 10% are actually the hardest ones-because they're going to make the game really perfect or not so."
De reden dat er nog geen releasedatum is ligt bij Sony, zij zijn namelijk degene die bepalen wanneer het spel op de markt komt.
Ook voor het onderwerp Nintendo was nog wat ruimte voor het interview. Daar waar Factor 5 de Nintendo 64 en GameCube nog goed ondersteunde, daar lijkt dit verdwenen te zijn door de controls van de Wii. Toch zegt Eggebrecht zeker geen ruzie te hebben met Nintendo.
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"For us, it was simply something where we already saw the initial direction of the Wii slightly, and at the time they hadn't really completely figured out yet the extent of the motion control and the extent of how much they would be doing with the wand and everything. So it was more about, "We're going to keep the specs for graphics and sound on the same level, and then we're going to do something else which is cool." Quite frankly, if you don't have the complete stuff in front of you -- which they didn't at the time -- that's a scary proposition for a developer, who's looking for, "Well, we should go high-definition and 7.1 audio and all of these things." We talked to them openly back then, we talked to Sony -- we also talked to Microsoft -- and Sony really had the whole package. ... But yeah, we're still good friends with Nintendo."
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