SCEA: MAG “Only Possible On PlayStation 3”

SCEA hardware marketing boss John Koller has said that Zipper Interactive’s upcoming 256-player online shooter MAG can only be achieved on the PlayStation 3.

“MAG is a 256 online-player game which is spectacular,” he said at GDC ’09 last week.

“If you look at that competitively, it’s something that’s only possible on PS3. The processor speed, the ability of PS3 to showcase 256 players at any given time, and their actions.”

Koller explained Zipper Interactive’s concept for the game.

“It’s basically like an iteration of SOCOM, where you’re maybe commanding the SEALs, and someone else has the Rangers, and the Green Berets, and so on,” he said.

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