The announcement of Xbox One was an opportunity for EA Sports announce new next-gen engine EA Sports Ignite, created with the aim of making it more realistic in all aspects of sports simulations. There is now a press release in which EA illustrates the characteristics of the new engine: I propose below. Update : added the video showing the graphic that we expect from the new engine on next-gen consoles.

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The EA SPORTS GAMES Of The NEXT GENERATION Of CONSOLES WILL USE The NEW EA SPORTS ENGINE IGNITE  

FIFA 25 14, Madden NFL, NBA LIVE, EA SPORTS UFC 14 to launch within the next 12 months

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., May 21, 2013: Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: EA) today announced that it has developed EA SPORTS ™ IGNITE , a new game engine that will be used by EA SPORTS games on Xbox One new game consoles from Microsoft and the PlayStation ® 4. Thanks to EA SPORTS, EA games IGNITE SPORTS will take life, with players who will move, think and act like real athletes and dynamic game worlds. The way in which you will play on next-generation console will be transformed. The first games to make use of EA SPORTS engine IGNITE, 14 FIFA, Madden NFL, NBA LIVE 14 25 and EA SPORTS ™ UFC, will come within the next 12 months.

EA SPORTS IGNITE combines brand new technologies with the best systems of rendering, real-time physics, animation, artificial intelligence, locomotion and online taken by EA games. The result? A single, powerful new engine. Athletes will have nearly human artificial intelligence to make decisions, they will have the necessary agility to change speed and direction with real movements and will be incorporated into vivid worlds that will make the rich and dynamic experience that stadiums and arenas in the real world. A video showing how EA SPORTS games will appear on Xbox One can be viewed here .

Andrew Wilson, Executive Vice President and Head of EA SPORTS, said: "With years of investment and innovation, in all EA SPORTS we built the technology required to create a game engine that will offer amazing precision, realism and experience as so far we could only dream of. With EA SPORTS and IGNITE the power of the new console, our games will take life: more realism, more emotion, more connectivity and more fun ".

Athletes of the games of the next generation of EA SPORTS can take intelligent decisions with almost human reaction times. EA SPORTS can IGNITE a number of calculations per second, four times higher than the old console, unlocking a nearly endless potential. Simulated players are capable of more complex decisions more quickly, their awareness of the context and the environment in which they find themselves, their instinct. In 14 FIFA , for example, the rush to a player whose team needs a goal grows with each passing minute and it does run just kicking the punishment or the remittance from the bottom if the approaching expiry time.

EA SPORTS IGNITE offers dynamic biomechanical movements of the best athletes in the world. With a depth of detail and animation 10 times higher than previous consoles, as well as thousands of animations of sport-specific movement, players can change speed quickly, finish and use the agility and explosiveness to change the fortunes of a race.

EA SPORTS games for the next generation will have graphics and realism of higher level. The game environment is a dynamic world, like a stadium or arena, able to change over the course of the match. For the first time, viewers will be in 3D and sides of the dynamic field will have an impact on the experience and the atmosphere will change gradually depending on the time of challenge. The actions of the players will change depending on the situation and the public will have expectations for each game, under which behaves.