The Order: 1886 PS4

We’re a year or so into the PlayStation 4 generation, and we’re yet to really see what the console can do. However, the world of technology never stops advancing, and that means that the system is technically already out of date. It’s a fact that Naughty Dog programmer Cort Stratton – who’s a member of the developer’s fabled ICE Team – won’t deny. However, it doesn’t mean that the device won’t impress you for many, many years to come.

“The hardware is no longer top of the line, sure,” he wrote in a conversation with a fan on Twitter. “That’s how consoles have always worked, and has very little to do with game quality. For example: the PlayStation 3 is 2005 era hardware, roughly; compare The Last of Us (2013) to AAA PC games from 2005. Squeezing five to ten years of performance improvements out of a fixed hardware platform is what console programmers do best.”

Considering that we’re still very much in the era of cross-generation games, we reckon that there’s still a lot to come from Sony’s latest box of tricks. DriveClub’s improvements, for example, highlight what a developer can do with a little extra time to work exclusively on the device, while The Order: 1886 also looks like the first real show stopper for the next-gen machine. Let’s consider just how out of date the PS4’s hardware looks when Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End drops, huh?

[source twitter.com, via gamepur.com, psu.com]