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Sweep on 20 September 2009

Naughty dog's Christophe Balestra explain what he meant with the famous sentence "Me Maxed the PS3"

Interview in french : http://www.play3-live.com/news-ps3-uncharted-2-interview-exclusive-p3l-de-christophe-balestra-16831.html

Recently, you announced that you pushed the PS3 to the limits. Does that mean that you can not do better?

No, it does not mean that. For the first Uncharted we used only 30% of SPUs and our goal was to bring most of our systems on the SPUs. With Uncharted 2, the SPUs run at 100%, they are always active.

There is still room for an improvement : SPUs are very fast, but they can be even faster if we take the time to optimize the code, something we have not done 100% .

There's room left for a future project. Moreover, we can always find new tricks to optimize treatment.

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And now another glimpse of an interview for gamekult.com (french website) Balestra is asked about ND sharing tricks with other studios

http://www.gamekult.com/articles/A0000079721/

And as such, you share the "tricks" with other studios? When you move to France, do you visit some colleagues and provide some tips for development on PS3?

Funny, I was last night in a French studio. Almost the whole staff was there to ask questions. We also share our experience with Infinity Ward, Bungie, Insomniac Games, Sucker Punch, we are in constant contact. It does not share code, it's more trying to understand the problems. For example, Infinity Ward came home for a day, they were fifteen, have toured the studio, asked questions ... and vice versa. It's something I think, very American. The approaches are sometimes different from one studio to another, but the results are there.

Infinity Ward, yep Bungie, wait a minute Bungie ?!??!! Bungie visiting a first party Sony Studio ???!!!

Uncharted Halo of Duty to be announced soon

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sabby_e17 on 20 September 2009

Infinity Ward, Bungie and ND looking to make Uncharted: Call of Halo? Three massive franchises put into one game?! It makes perfect sense!

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Gilgamesh on 20 September 2009

PS3 unmaxable confirmed?

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nen-suer on 20 September 2009

Great interview

what ever there next project is it sure will be amazing...

glad to see Bungie interested too

"Uncharted Halo of Duty" would be epic indeed

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sabby_e17 on 20 September 2009

Gilgamesh said:

PS3 unmaxable confirmed?

Pretty much. Even the Naughty Gods can't max the PS3!

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Carl on 20 September 2009

Bungie?

Why would there be Bungie in that group of developers that make games on PS3?

Aren't Bungie making a new game?

Interesting...

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Squall_Leonhart on 20 September 2009

This brings attention to the fact they mentioned Bungie... I mean if they were only working with M$ then why would they be taking tips on PS3 programming?? I smell something to be announced in the future from them regarding the PS3... more than likely a Multiplat title!