God of War dev: PS4 removes visual shackles

**mankind** · 03-11-2013

The upcoming PlayStation 4 will remove the shackles in terms of visuals that previously limited developers this generation, God of War: Ascension developer Sony Santa Monica has said.
"We're going to be able to show a lot more, right?" lead game designer of GoW: Ascension, Mark Simon said to Eurogamer. "If you give us enough time and you give us those specs, we will blow you away. Our team's pretty good."
In explaining how, Simon elaborates: "Well, the hardware itself has 16 times the memory we had on the previous console. The hardware takes a lot of the shackles off in terms of visuals."
However, eager God of War fans shouldn't expect a new title to launch on the PS4 any time soon, as Simon says the team have not yet gotten to that stage.
"To me [the PS4] is imagination land," he said. "We haven't touched it. We're not even concentrating on it. All we're concentrating on is we know we release in a week. I imagine we're going to be on our forums talking to players about the stuff they're experiencing in multiplayer and trying to address that stuff immediately. We're going to have half of our team ready to go for that stuff."
"We're going to continue to tune and balance and create new content. We still get to think about and imagine how cool it would be, but we're still working on this game on the PS3."
God of War: Ascension launches in Australia on March 14, 2013, exclusively on PlayStation 3. Check out MMGN's official preview of Ascension for more information, and stay tuned for our official review this week.

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**PeanutButterMunky** · 03-11-2013

I'm really excited to see what they have to offer. Sucks there's no timeframe, though.

**Ghost-Rhayne** · 03-11-2013

GoW:A already blows many current gamesout the water. I can't imagine what SM, ND, QD etc will do with Sony's new behemoth.

**Serinous** · 03-11-2013

I can only imagine. it's gonna be so fuckin crazy awesome

**Yuuichi** · 03-11-2013

Sure there is no time frame....GOW 4 E3 announcment haha

**Kuro** · 03-11-2013

Sounds very promising no doubt

**Two4DaMoney** · 03-11-2013

I don't want any fucking more god of wars. Let that shit die already. But I will play GOW:A.

It's time they work on Heavenly Sword 2.

**FireSol** · 03-11-2013

I wannato SM and Team Ninja to cooperate and make Dead of Alive for ps4!!!

**PeanutButterMunky** · 03-11-2013

Originally Posted by Two4DaMoney

I don't want any fucking more god of wars. Let that shit die already. But I will play GOW:A.

It's time they work on Heavenly Sword 2.

Blasphemy!

**radgamer420** · 03-11-2013

Originally Posted by Two4DaMoney

I don't want any fucking more god of wars. Let that shit die already. But I will play GOW:A.

It's time they work on Heavenly Sword 2.

I really enjoyed HS. Just think what they could do with that on PS4.

**coolguy** · 03-11-2013

lets hope for a god of war game for the ps4

**IWAO** · 03-11-2013

Originally Posted by PeanutButterMunky

I'm really excited to see what they have to offer. Sucks there's no timeframe, though.

**RedOrb_Collector** · 03-12-2013

Devs say this shit every generation, and then they quickly get tired of the amount of RAM they do have.

Anyway, I want a God of War 4. God of War 3's ending was terrible. But, I wouldn't mind if they moved on to Norse mythology. And in fact, that maybe what they are doing anyway. As the God of War team have been heavily promoting the new Vikings original series that debuted a couple of weeks ago. They even had a whole bunch of behind the scenes stuff regarding the show on the Ascension demo, at one point even comparing Odin and Ares as both are Gods of War for their respective pantheons.

**TDbank24** · 03-12-2013

Santa Monica Studio as well as all of Sony's first party developers are going to do some amazing things with the PS4.

**PeanutButterMunky** · 03-12-2013

Originally Posted by RedOrb_Collector

Devs say this shit every generation, and then they quickly get tired of the amount of RAM they do have.

I'm sure they'll be happy with 8 GB for a while.

And yes, devs do say this every gen, but it holds a little more weight with a company such as this.

**Serinous** · 03-12-2013

Originally Posted by Two4DaMoney

I don't want any fucking more god of wars. Let that shit die already. But I will play GOW:A.

It's time they work on Heavenly Sword 2.

I like the idea of a new Heavenly Sword.

**PeanutButterMunky** · 03-12-2013

Originally Posted by Serinous

I like the idea of a new Heavenly Sword.

That would be pretty sweet... although I felt like I was mostly watching that game, not playing it. o_0

**Kopkiwi** · 03-12-2013

Can't wait to see what ND do with a new Uncharted game.

**Serinous** · 03-12-2013

Originally Posted by PeanutButterMunky

That would be pretty sweet... although I felt like I was mostly watching that game, not playing it. o_0

I know. wouldn't be a problem of nariko was naked though. lol

**ps3freak18** · 03-12-2013

God of war Ascension looks amazing. This coming from them is a pretty big statement. Looking forward to their next project. I just hope it's a new IP.

**Sufi** · 03-13-2013

This makes me very excited. Because I feel like developers can finally work on creativity this time around rather than trying to better the graphics...of course that will happen too but they know people don't want it to be photo-realistic and so they have a lot more RAM left to work on making the game bigger and more seamless.

That was my biggest gripe this generation. Because I would think to myself, "Well, if they could achieve games with 4MB of VRAM like that then I can't imagine how open the games will be this generation." Well, we saw that devs mostly worked on trying to get the resolution up, AA, frame rate and graphics overall...AI didn't progress much, neither did creativity.

We got the same games but upgrades...though very rare ones were spot on.

So this is what I really wanted last generation, it's about freaking time.

**Naxi** · 03-13-2013

Originally Posted by Sufi

This makes me very excited. Because I feel like developers can finally work on creativity this time around rather than trying to better the graphics...of course that will happen too but they know people don't want it to be photo-realistic and so they have a lot more RAM left to work on making the game bigger and more seamless.

That was my biggest gripe this generation. Because I would think to myself, "Well, if they could achieve games with 4MB of VRAM like that then I can't imagine how open the games will be this generation." Well, we saw that devs mostly worked on trying to get the resolution up, AA, frame rate and graphics overall...AI didn't progress much, neither did creativity.

We got the same games but upgrades...though very rare ones were spot on.

So this is what I really wanted last generation, it's about freaking time.

I doubt it'll change that much. Killzone's playing field is still pretty standard with the vistas looking impressive and giving the impression of openness.

**Sufi** · 03-13-2013

Originally Posted by Naxi

I doubt it'll change that much. Killzone's playing field is still pretty standard with the vistas looking impressive and giving the impression of openness.

I believe that has more to do with the developer than the console itself.

I'm positive if PlanetSide 2 is coming to PS4 (and why can't it?) then it's just the beginning of many amazing open-world games we will likely see, especially from the PC world.

What is stopping them? The RAM is all there.

**Bigdoggy** · 03-13-2013

Nothing is stopping them, they just haven't announced those other games yet but they will. The RAM is there and the gpu power is there, the cpu is more than enough even though the cpu specs haven't even been released yet but it will be perfectly fine and wont bottleneck. The PS3 had a bottleneck built into the system and another one for the developers.

**Sajuuk Khar** · 03-13-2013

Originally Posted by Sufi

I believe that has more to do with the developer than the console itself.

I'm positive if PlanetSide 2 is coming to PS4 (and why can't it?) then it's just the beginning of many amazing open-world games we will likely see, especially from the PC world.

What is stopping them? The RAM is all there.

To handle planetside 2, they would need to seriously leverage the full 8 cores, it is a rather cpu limited game when the battles really kick off. High end i7s have problems, but it could be a combination of cpu and server code.