(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Naughty Dog will keep its existing in-house engine used in Uncharted and The Last of Us for the PS4, the developer has revealed.


Game director Bruce Straley explained how it won't repeat past mistakes of developing a new engine from scratch for a new console generation, as it did when it started work on Uncharted for the PS3.


"We learned a big lesson coming from PS2 to PS3," he told Digital Spy.


"There was a lot of hype over what next-gen was going to be. It was all going to be like movies, like a pre-rendered cutscene-style fidelity.


"That turned out not to be true. Granted, what we're able to do now is pretty damn close, but it took Naughty Dog four games to get there - one of the top developers in the industry with some on the most amazing scientists working in our programming department."


"We scrapped everything at the beginning of Uncharted 1, and we had a perfectly good engine with the Jak & Daxter franchise.


"We could have started with something there and then built off of it and only changed the pieces and parts as we needed, when we needed. And that really caused a lot of turmoil.


"Again, we were creating a new IP, with a new engine, with a lot of weird expectations. Nobody had a dev kit soon enough, and as we all know, trying to figure out how to programme for a whole new piece of hardware was really difficult.


Straley continued: "We learned our lesson in saying, as we move into development into next-gen, we want to take our current engine, port it immediately over as is and say, 'Okay, we have a great AI system, we have a good rendering system'.


"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?


"'When does the gameplay, when does the story, when does the world that we need to create - when does this engine hit the wall? Right, now we need to change this part of the engine.'


"Hindsight's 20-20, and it sounds obvious to say it, but it's one of those things that you learn in development. We've gained something from this experience, and now we want to apply it moving into next gen."


Naughty Dog has been responsible for some of the PlayStation's most successful franchises, including Crash Bandicoot and Jak & Daxter.


The Last of Us stars Joel and Ellie as two survivors living in a post-apocalyptic United States overrun by zombie-like humans infected with a fungus-like virus.


Sony registered domains for The Last of Us sequels earlier this month, suggesting that it would be the start of a new franchise.

So want to see what they can do on this bit of hardware with that engine.

but will this old engine being upgrade?cause the uncharted engine is a little bit bulky to me.

The Uncharted engine is amazing. Just look at how well Uncharted 3 was made and the Upcoming The Last of Us

Only a few weeks left... The Last Of Us will be a great game/ a marvel for all to enjoy.

Still, how are they going to work in this pathetic father/daughter kinship thing with strangers? Obviously the relationship with these two is the games focal point, but why a grown man and a teenage girl? I dont understand their decision... but the game looks great nonetheless and the story should have already sold many.

The game engine looks polished as well, just the whole thought of a survival with low health and a sense of realism strikes me as awesome. Or maybe its just an excuse to make the uncharted series harder LOL.

I'm not sure, guess we will just have to find out in just over two weeks. The demo is out today though if you have GoW: Ascension.

Based on the fact the engine was choked on PS3 and they had to do clever things which worked to make it look good.
Looking forward to a upgraded version of the old engine that can run on PS4 hardware. Bulky in what way ?

I think the engine will run better on PS4, and has not been used to it's full potential, and that's why Naughty Dog hasn't built a new engine. In saying that though, the new specs of the PS4 will more than likely require some tweaking to the engine, which is not a bad thing. The Last of Us looks amazing compared to Uncharted 3, and all that changed was the console hardware. So I can only imagine what some specific tweaking with the new hardware will bring us.

I like the engine as it is, but please ND...just give me Uncharted 4.

Why Wont They (facepalm)