Naughty Dog have revealed that they have not even considered developing anything for the Vita, but that might change in the future if the right opportunity presents itself.
Naughty Dog may not have a production line of IPs such as Electronic Arts, who have the FIFA, Crysis, Battlefield, Need For Speed, Mass Effect and Dead Space series, among others, yet what the studio does put out rarely goes on to become anything less than
Game of the Year.
Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune was the studio’s first game on the PlayStation 3 and it received a generally positive response, yet Uncharted 2: Among Thieves raised the bar for production value, storytelling and visuals in gaming to new heights.
Naughty Dog is one of Sony’s many first-party studios, so one would automatically assume that they would jump on the PlayStation Vita bandwagon. However, according to Arne Meyer, the community manager at the studio, that may not be the case.
Meyer was rather blunt when he said, “We’re not working on anything for PS Vita.”
However, he went on to give fans of the studio a ray of hope when he continued, “I won’t say never, ever, but there’s no plans for it right now – we’ve always felt that consoles play to our strengths as a studio the best.”
In fact, the same studio was also quoted saying that they were reaching the limits of what the PlayStation 3 could do and that leaps, in terms of visuals, would not be as great as they once were.
Meyer continued, “I hate to sound like a treading the line spin-meister here, but I’ve said that traditionally consoles have played to our strengths – and desires to push the utmost limit of resources and memory our tech and engine.”
“That can change with the right handheld, as why I said I won’t ever say ‘never’ but we hadn’t encountered that yet.”
It should be noted that the news does not mean there will not be any Uncharted games on the Vita as Uncharted: Golden Abyss, which was not developed by Naughty Dog, is a worthy entry into the series and managed to earn a fair bit of praise as well.
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