PS3 is a beast of a console, but it has its limitations and it would appear that developers are getting closer to reaching that top limit. Uncharted was a fantastic title, and the graphical leap to Uncharted 2 was pretty big. Uncharted 3? Not so much.
"I don't think you'll ever see that same jump again, at least on a PlayStation 3. There was just so much power left over in the PS3 when we made Uncharted 1 that we figured out how to use and really took it to town when developing Uncharted 2," Naughty Dog's Justin Richmond explained to Spong.
That's not to say Uncharted 3 isn't greatly improved, stressed the game's director. "Uncharted 3 isn't just an incremental update," Richmond noted. "We did change lots and lots of things - but graphically speaking, it's not going to have the same gap [as between Uncharted 1 and 2]. It was never going to happen."
"The way we made it, how much of the PS3's power we were using... that huge gap that you saw between Uncharted 1 and 2 is the kind of thing that really only happens once per generation. We pushed it really hard. Uncharted 2 to 3 is still a jump, but it's a narrower jump. And going forward, it depends on what we do."
PS4 is not likely to be out for another couple years at least, so developers still have plenty of time to push the PS3.
