Naughty Dog consistently pumps out some of the best looking games in the industry, so it’s no surprise that the developer’s sticking with its current generation engine for the PlayStation 4. Chatting with Digital Spy, The Last of Us’ game director Bruce Straley admitted that the company went through “turmoil” transitioning from the PlayStation 2 to the PlayStation 3.
“We scrapped everything at the beginning of Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, and we had a perfectly good engine with the Jak & Daxter franchise,” he revealed. “We could have started with something there and then built off of it and only changed the pieces and parts as we needed, when we needed.”
As such, the company has opted to stick with its existing technology for the PS4. “We want to take our current engine, port it immediately over as is, and say, ‘Okay, we have a great AI system, we have a good rendering system, we have all of these things that already work',” he continued. “Only when we hit a wall will we say, ‘When do we need to change something? When do we need to scale it?’”
Based on the short snippets of The Last of Us that we’ve seen, the game already looks like a next generation release, so we think that this is a smart move by the company. In fact, we wouldn’t be surprised if the studio wasn’t already tailoring the technology to the PS4 as we type – we think that Uncharted 4 is a real wildcard for E3.
[source digitalspy.co.uk, via vg247.com]
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Makes sense seeing as internal engine's are pretty hard to make and should last a long time. Uncharted Engine should last the rest of th next gen and shouldn't have to be replaced till a PS5. The Halo 4 engine is the same one used for the original combat evolved and that's going away next gen.
Not related too Naugty Dog but was it ever confirmed that Knack was using unreal engine 4 or was that just a rumor.
If Naughty Dog does make a Uncharted 4 I suspect it will be a PS3 release. One thing I've always admired about ND is every generation they kick off a new franchise. While company's like Konami, Nintendo, Namco, etc. cling to the same franchises generation after generation, ND always brings something new to the table. PS1 was Crash Bandicoot, PS2 was Jack & Dexter, PS3 was Drake and now Last of Us. I think if every developer followed their formula Video games would be a lot more varied. I'm really looking foward to seeing what they have in store for PS4. One of the top 3 developers in my opinion.
@ajay708 I think they've said PS3 wouldn't be powerful enough to do Uncharted 4 on.
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Well one could have said the same about infamous and Killzone.
I don't see a problem with this - from what we've seen this engine is capable of amazing things even on old hardware like the PS3; it can only get better with the PS4 as long as Naughty Dog keep tweaking it to suit their needs. Plus, they're a developer that always strives for the very best possible, so I certainly can't see them getting lazy and letting their quality slip, even if they're using the same base engine.
As long as they get rid of having every interactive object pulse hi lighter yellow on every difficulty setting... Uncharted is for babies : )
@Sony_70 Killzone and inFAMOUS are fine. I think he was referring to those franchises that have been around for decades like, Mario, Madden, CoD, etc.
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