Naughty Dog keeping Last of Us, Uncharted engine for PS4

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Ditching Jak engine after PS2 "really caused a lot of turmoil"

Console transitions are a time of renewal--fresh ideas and franchises pop up to fill the young consoles while there's still room to make a mark. Naughty Dog got caught up in the momentum when moving from PS2 to PS3, and it ended up throwing out the baby with the bathwater.

Naughty Dog won't take the same approach with PlayStation 4. Instead, it plans to keep going with the same engine that powers Uncharted and The Last of Us, and tweak it as the need arises.

"We have all these things that already work. Only when we hit a wall will we say, 'When do we need to change something? When do we need to scale it," he asked. "When does the gameplay, when does the story, when does the world that we need to create--when does this engine hit the wall?"

Connor Sheridan
Connor Sheridan

I got a BA in journalism from Central Michigan University - though the best education I received there was from CM Life, its student-run newspaper. Long before that, I started pursuing my degree in video games by bugging my older brother to let me play Zelda on the Super Nintendo. I've previously been a news intern for GameSpot, a news writer for CVG, and was formerly a staff writer at GamesRadar.