“Impossible” to deliver shooter sequel on any other console
Heavy memory demands from Killzone 2’s high-detail warzones mean that Guerilla’s opus simply couldn’t work on any console using standard DVD discs.
“Xbox 360 doesn’t have Blu-ray,” Hermen Hulst, managing director at Guerilla explains, “PlayStation 3 does. [A single level] is 2GB. We really need Blu-ray to make the game. I don’t know how you could fit it on Xbox 360 without taking some shortcuts”.
“Blu-ray isn’t important for watching movies,” Hulst continues, “we need it for making games”.
But it’s not simply Blu-ray’s storage capacity that makes PS3 the only viable platform, as the two developers informed Official PlayStation Magazine during a recent interview. Hulst stresses: “I firmly believe that what we’ve shown we can get out of [PS3] would be difficult, if not impossible, to deliver on a competing machine”. Full Story
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