NVIDIA provides PhysX kit for Wii developers

Ragdoll physics, bits of broken wood flying everywhere and fancy explosions- these are all the fancy effects that a physics engine enables in the current generation of games. NVIDIA- market leaders in physics and graphics technology have today made their PhysX development kit available to any company registered to make games for Wii. The technology has been present on PC games for years- but recent advances have streamlined the technology to work on a broader range of hardware. More inside What does this mean for Wii owners? Well, we might have to wait a year or more to see games take full advantage of the showy technology, but with physics-oriented, motion-controlled franchises such as Boom Blox all we can do is salivate in wonder at the possibilites.

NVIDIA Becomes a Nintendo Worldwide Third Party Tools Provider With PhysX SDK for Wii

SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ NVIDIA Corporation today announced that it has been approved as a third party tools solution provider for the Wii console. As a result, the NVIDIA PhysX technology SDK is now available to 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.

The PhysX SDK for the Wii console, and all major gaming platforms, are available for license directly from NVIDIA. For more information on licensing PhysX SDKs or NVIDIA PhysX technology, please visit: www.nvidia.com/physx

Source: NVIDIA