Naughty Dog’s Evan Wells has said their latest Uncharted entry would be ”a very different game” if it wasn’t for the Cell processor and Blu-ray capacity of the PlayStation 3.
Differences between Xbox 360 and PS3 games are ”much more to do” with the talents of the developer though, not the hardware. Great coders and artists make ”a great game.”
”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,” co-president Wells tells VG247 in an interview.
”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.” Uncharted 2: Among Thieves has been lauded as a fantastic game by most critics, and one that defines the PS3.
”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 continued.
”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.”
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves is exclusive to PS3 and available now in the UK and Europe.
