Naughty Dog: Move to next-gen will be “difficult”
Uncharted team's next platform "in the air."
December 19, 2011 / 02:40 PM EDT / (@salromano)

Uncharted and The Last of Us developer Naughty Dog isn’t afraid of much, having already conquered PlayStation 3, but the transition to next-generation hardware is something the Santa Monica-based studio fears will be “difficult.”

“When you’re going to new technology, every day is a slog, progress is slow and it really takes a different kind of attitude and mentality to get through that kind of push and it’s not right for everybody,” said Evan Wells to Eurogamer.

The shift from PS2 to PlayStation 3 development was “the period that Naughty Dog had its darkest days and we lost people on a weekly basis – people just couldn’t get through it.”

Naughty Dog co-president Christophe Balestra chimed in, adding, “We made some mistakes with our move from PS2 to PS3 and we won’t make those again. I guess we’ve done it a couple of times!”

The AAA studio currently has two teams, one kept entirely secret up until the reveal of The Last of Us earlier this month. The other team – the Uncharted team – according to Balestra, is currently “not working that much. Some of them are working mainly on DLC for [Uncharted 3's] multiplayer, and a lot of them are on vacation.

“I think the team’s going to regroup and we’re going to figure out what’s going to be the next move is for that team.”

Wells added, “Next-gen, current-gen – that’s totally in the air.”

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  • Rafi

    Then the developer must push current console more harder.

  • vertical09

    They they can stay on the ps3 for a year or so till they get ready to move;) i mean, whats the point on making a horrible rushed game on a current gen system.

  • captainhowdy

    What they should do is ask sony for the alpha build of the PS4, so they can get a feel for what the next gen will be like.

  • vertical09

    ^Easier said then done, the PS4 is probably at an unstable state and is subject to change at anytime so they’ll be learning it for nothing,

  • http://www.espadakiller.wordpress.com EspadaKiller

    Blah i bet they already have their hands on the PS4 dev kit already. They are just waiting the right time to start developing that’s all!!!

  • http://www.youtube.com/tezchi TezChi

    Seems the transition to a new console generation is difficult for everybody involved. The early days of any new gen are proof of this, and it takes time for devs to re-learn the ropes and get to grips with the new hardware. I do have faith in Naughty Dog though, they’re a great developer.

  • captainhowdy

    @Vertical

    Not really. I believe the next gen coming up graphics won’t be that huge of a leap like this gen. The worst part of this generation has been developers moving to HD and high end graphics, which was difficult because they have never messed with technology this advanced.