Posted on Thursday, March 19 2009 @ 14:32 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
Two days ago NVIDIA licensed
PhysX for the PlayStation 3, and today the visual computing firm made its PhysX technology SDK available for the Nintendo Wii console. NVIDIA has been approved as a third party tools solution provider for the Wii, the PhysX SDK is now available to all registered Wii developers.
"Nintendo has reshaped the home entertainment and video game market with the success of the Wii console. Adding a PhysX SDK for Wii is key to our cross-platform strategy and integral to the business model for our licensed game developers and publishers," said Tony Tamasi, senior vice president of content and technology at NVIDIA. "With NVIDIA PhysX technology, developers can easily author more realistic game environments for the evolving demands of a broad class of Wii gamers."
The NVIDIA PhysX software development kit (SDK) consists of a full-featured API and robust physics engine, designed to give developers, animators, level designers, and artists unprecedented creative control over character and object physical interactions by allowing them to author scalable physics in real time.
