Every so often we still see people decrying the fact that Blu-Ray won the format wars, stating that HD DVD was cheaper, better quality. Some even state it was better because it was NOT developed by Sony, who set the price. But beyond the standard arguments of being able to fit more on a Blu-Ray or that the world's most advanced multimedia gaming system (yeah I SAID IT) is such because of the next gen technology, is there a definitive voice you can pouint detractors to? Now there is. And it comes in the form of Naughty Dog and Uncharted 2.
Co-President Evan Wells had some comments when speaking to VG 247: “I think the differences that you see between any two games has much more to do with the developer than whether it’s on the Xbox or PS3.”
“Great programmers and great artists are going to make a great game. Naughty Dog will continue to push the PlayStation hardware as far as we can."
“We’re fortunate that we get to work on a system that has a hard drive and uses blu-ray for storage. Without these things, Uncharted 2 would have been a very different game. What we were able to do with the Cell processor allowed us to achieve a density of polygons and a fidelity to our effects that would simply not be possible without it."
He also stated that the reason for Uncharted 2 looking the way it does is due to the talented team at Naughty Dog: “But ultimately, if we didn’t have a team of very talented programmers and artists, we wouldn’t have been able to take advantage of the hardware and achieve the results that we did.” |