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[Robot Pants]

The Last of Us 2 better be fucking awesome.

They better not make The Last of Us 2.
Move on to new IP or Uncharted sequel (I guess :/ )

 

[SenjutsuSage]

i hear bish coming.

LOL. That samual l jackon avatar really is intimidating.

 

[Bundy]

Naughty Dog are the only developer that lights my underwear on fire when I think about them.

Combine that with the PS4 blowing my pants off...

I'm still scared as hell.....
Imagine there next PS4 game, then their second game, etc.
God, I love their games ^_^

 

[Despera]

Time for a new IP. I just hope my body is ready by the time they announce it.

 

[lupinko]

Sony really want Naughty Dog to remain exclusive.

I know right, just like how Nintendo really wants Retro to remain exclusive or how the same applies for 343i on MS' end. :x

 

[TheWorthyEdge]

:O

Everyday something makes my hype level go up. EVERYDAY!

 

[twobear]

I desperately want a new Uncharted, but I suspect they'll make something else

 

[beast786]

are dev kits bigger? because it should be two per box which would mean 250 kits.

Yep, since PS1 days sony Dev Kit are pretty much desktop like big compare to console itself.

 

[Icecait]

They're making a MMO aren't they

Or something something persistent online world

That would the one of the few ways how ND could disappoint me. MMO or facebook game

Same here. I'm not a fan of this "online only" fad.

 

[billy323]

While The Last Of Us 2 would be great....Jak & Daxter game, open world, that's similar to the first J&D game? YES!

This. They said they tried but couldn't do J&D justice on ps3. I bet they could on ps4

 

[purnoman3000]

That is basically pocket change compared to development costs, right?

Even if these Dev Kits cost full retail (400$) they still wouldn't add up to the annual salary of one programmer.



.

 

[Psycho_Mantis]

I see 125 PS4 kits though. What does this mean.......125-120=5. Jak and Daxter 5 confirmed.

 

[weevles]

Wow, how many do they have now total?

 

[Contra11]

I just hope it's not a MMO or online oriented game

 

[ChryZ]

Good, they'll make them sing and dance for sure.

 

[BruiserBear]

I would assume these kits are for the Last of Us team, that is about to get rolling on their next game. While the next Uncharted is already well into production with it's own team.

 

[Gorillaz]

Naughty Dog leading the charge to next gen confirmed?

Sony really want Naughty Dog to remain exclusive.

well......

 

[Phoenician_Viking]

What´s this Starlight thing that a lot of people are mentioning?

 

[Aussie Legend]

Open world TLoU MMO with a heavy focus on PVP for supplies, safe houses, with a loose story system surviving against infected while you search for a potential cure/the last surviving groups of human civilization.

Options for gaining companions to help in keeping you and your group alive. Join up with other survivors to even the odds against other scavengers, hostile hunters, and infected in sprawling cities reclaimed by nature. Includes an updated crafting system, a barter system, and the option to go renegade and become a hunter yourself.

Persistent world moves even when you aren't logged in. Safe houses help keep you safe during downtime, but going it in the wilderness could mean simply losing supplies or becoming infected yourself.

I'm really thinking it could be something like Day-Z, but much much bigger and in the TLoU universe.

Hire this man! (also a n Uncharted along similarly fleshed out lines would also be fantastic, I gotta admit if ND'd next gen is super linear again I'll be a tad disappointed they didn't venture forth and conquer non-linear like they have with strictly-linear)

 

[XeNoN89]

Does anybody know how many devkits is normal for an AAA developer to have? 120 seems like a lot to me!

 

[Five]

That seems like... an awful lot. I would figure one for every developer, a handful for Q/A, and then a few more for redundancy since accidents happen and hardware dies. Unless they have artists and designers compiling the game too, this seems like excess to me. Hmmm.

 

[orioto]

Nobody's worried they receive that just now... ?

 

[EGOMON]

woah! seeing PS4 and Naughty Dog in the same sentence gives me goosebumps

 

[EvB]

So is everybody in agreement we were infact yet to see any games running on PS4 hardware?

 

[HORRORSHØW]

What´s this Starlight thing that a lot of people are mentioning?

It's from a collection of comics found throughout The Last of Us.

 

[EGOMON]

Nobody's worried they receive that just now... ?

They already have quite some, the tweet say "120 more"

 

[BruiserBear]

Nobody's worried they receive that just now... ?

The tweet said "120 more", indicating they already had PS4 kits.

 

[DBT85]

Nobody's worried they receive that just now... ?

More.. 120 more.

 

[B.O.O.M]

Nobody's worried they receive that just now... ?

Why would we worry? These are additional dev kits

I'm guessing these are for the TLOU team

 

[SenjutsuSage]

They likely need more than others because don't they help design development tools for the system that then get passed on to other developers, including third party?

 

[B_Boss]

Naughty Dog:

Sony:

(.gif courtey of iceddoughnut@ reddit oh and errrmm.....Andy is caucasian but.....well know how .gifs can be lol)

 

[Fushichou187]

That seems like... an awful lot. I would figure one for every developer, a handful for Q/A, and then a few more for redundancy since accidents happen and hardware dies. Unless they have artists and designers compiling the game too, this seems like excess to me. Hmmm.

Not if it speeds up development or QA testing by an order of magnitude.

 

[Ein Bear]

Nobody's worried they receive that just now... ?

Nah, I bet we'll see a new Naughty Dog game pretty soon. I imagine these will be for the team that just finished the Last of Us and will be about to start their PS4 project. The Uncharted 3 team, on the other hand, will have had dev kits for a good while, and their game should be pretty far along by now.

 

[TheRealTalker]

it begins 2015 will be a amazing year if I will still be alive and at 100% that is...

 

[Appollowexx]

Ramping up development so they can crank out an insane trailer for this years VGA's!

 

[Phoenician_Viking]

It's from a collection of comics found throughout The Last of Us.

Thanks. Savage Starlight looks like a great concept.

 

[EvB]

Naughty Dog:

Sony:

(.gif courtey of iceddoughnut@ reddit oh and errrmm.....Andy is caucasian but.....well know how .gifs can be lol)

I'm not sure what you are suggesting

 

[Prince Vultan]

Fuuuuu...

How many people do they have working there exactly?

 

[PureGone]

New Open World IP along with Uncharted 4 is my hope for Naughty Dog

 

[CouchMaster]

Does anybody know how many devkits is normal for an AAA developer to have? 120 seems like a lot to me!

Afaik they also write the dev tools software and libraries for other developers, so it may not be just for games.

 

[Kaako]

Good good. If I was Sony, I'd dump a truck load at their offices and let them work their magic.

 

[Five]

Not if it speeds up development or QA testing by an order of magnitude.

I agree, but there's a limit to how many more a company can have before they're just sitting around taking up hall space. It's generally only the programmers and Q/A who need the dev kits, as everyone else can see what their contribution looks like with PhotoShop, Maya or whatever authoring tools they're using on the PC. So ND must have a fairly large Q/A contingent.

 

[RoboPlato]

Some good work will be done on these machines.

 

[Zok310]

Start drooling, GAF

Looks like Sony can produce quite a few dev kits.

Why so many?
Wow, they must be responsible for some type of distribution?
Or Sony don't want ND to have any excuses for delaying a games.

 

[Primedoughnut]

I thing after the critical and commercial success of TLoU ND at this point in time gets to write it's own ticket...

 

[SolidSnakeUS]

Power, power and more power . I have so much faith in ND to make something amazing.

 

[djshauny]

Cool.

 

[DSveno]

Even if these Dev Kits cost full retail (400$) they still wouldn't add up to the annual salary of one programmer.

Isn't it said that one dev kit cost around $2500?

 

[Stoffinator]

I thought they would of had these long ago,. The first, if not, one of the first.

 

[PureGone]

Isn't it said that one dev kit cost around $2500?

Yeah but they have been giving it out for free:

http://www.vg247.com/2013/07/26/ps4-dev-kits-pricey-but-sony-handing-them-out-like-candy-rumour/