Uncharted developer discusses PSN demo, HD support
by Dan Dormer 
{ Oct 4th 2007 at 12:25PM }
Wells stated that they're working on a demo for the PlayStation Network, and it "will be up before [its] release date." After treading the waters, he addressed letters – consonants and vowels – in a Sesame Street fashion, specifically I, P, and HDTV. The game supports 720p, and after many people requested via the comments for 1080 support, Wells filled the community in: 1080i won't a problem, 1080p will be scaled from 1080i via software. Now you can experience the game as it was meant to be, according to Wells, "in glorious high definition." Yay?
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Fernando Rocker (NDF - Water Ring) @ Oct 4th 2007 12:30PM
I want double HDMI 1080p support like Sony said it was going to be.
Konny @ Oct 4th 2007 12:39PM
Hope they dont pull a Halo3 and are really scaling it from 600p.. thats Wii/GC territory.
AirIntake @ Oct 4th 2007 12:43PM
The Wii/GC would love to be able to do 640p, Konny. But you wouldn't notice because you are a troll fanboy.
License to ill @ Oct 4th 2007 1:01PM
Hope they dont pull a Halo3 and are really scaling it from 600p.. thats Wii/GC territory.
More like 420p is wii/GC territory...
Fernando Rocker (NDF - Water Ring) @ Oct 4th 2007 1:03PM
License to ill
480p
Slaziman @ Oct 4th 2007 1:38PM
So you mean the Wii renders games at 640p and then downscales them to 480p, which is the only thing it can output? Awesome.
vanwagnen @ Oct 4th 2007 2:10PM
Well I usually can just ignore you, but when I read this comment I just couldn't believe what a whiny little asshole you really are.....
loungemonkey @ Oct 4th 2007 2:27PM
Yeah and I want the $50 first party games that MS promised us....but guess what, it aint gonna happen.
Aaron @ Oct 4th 2007 12:48PM
Another AWESOME PS3 exclusive! Sony and Naughty Dog pull through again!
CaptainAmericaX @ Oct 4th 2007 12:55PM
You call Tomb Raider: Male Edition an "AWESOME Exclusive"?
Okay....
Besides thr shiny graphics in the game I don't see whats to be excited about.
Marty @ Oct 4th 2007 1:02PM
It looks more like a crappy version of Gears of War without the armor.
Fernando Rocker (NDF - Water Ring) @ Oct 4th 2007 1:08PM
This game doesnt have a chance against Mario Galaxy.
Vidikron (FU) @ Oct 4th 2007 2:06PM
Wow... three ignorant replies to the OP. Congrats guys. Naughty Dog has an excellent track record.
Marty @ Oct 4th 2007 2:39PM
Hey, Sony has a good track record too, but they've fumbled a lot in the last year, wouldn't you say so?
I didn't mean to demean the game anyway - but it does look like Gears without the armor... anyone who's seen the gameplay could say that.
Vidikron (FU) @ Oct 4th 2007 3:22PM
It looks nothing like GoW beyond being in 3rd person and having a cover system. Does having a cover system automatically make a game a GoW clone? To me it looks more like Tomb Raider with a cover system and more shooting. In either case, I don't see why anyone would think it looks "crappy" unless they just don't care for Tomb Raider type games.
Drekken @ Oct 4th 2007 12:49PM
I dont really post often but there are only so many Fernando commments I can take...
Double 1080p support? Go back to wii and your stock sports games. Quit trolling ps3 posts.
I am reporting your avatar to Disney too. I think they have a patten on the Shaggy dog look.
Jake @ Oct 4th 2007 12:59PM
It isn't even his own picture. It is a childhood photo of Team Ninja's Itagaki.
Drekken @ Oct 4th 2007 1:09PM
hmm I dont know what it is, he just annoys me.
Night Elve @ Oct 4th 2007 1:38PM
Hey Drekken relax man! There is no need to insult Shaggy 's face.
Mr. P @ Oct 4th 2007 1:54PM
You'd think he'd be spending more time playing the wonderful and magnificent Wii, but if you look at his profile you'd see the guy has made over a thousand comments in a pretty short amount of time. Not much else to do ;)
vanwagnen @ Oct 4th 2007 2:17PM
I'm with you. I always just ignore Mr. Rocker, but something about this particular comment was just so unbelievably whiny. So I replied to him, and I also post very rarely. I think his 'double 1080p' post was a new low-water mark for the NDF poster child.
morganfell @ Oct 4th 2007 1:00PM
The article said 'Yay?' at the end. A developer offers a good feature for what is shaping up to be an outstanding game and a snide remark like that pops up? Wait, I forgot. It's a PS3 title and this is Joystiq.
Jake @ Oct 4th 2007 1:02PM
Your post sounded like a Sony press release or something.
I didn't know the PS3 already had an awesome exclusive. Sigma if you count that. Resistance and Motorstorm were good, but I don't think you can classify them as awesome.
Or are you counting unreleased games?
Uncharted just looks like a poor man's Gears with some Tomb Raider splashed in. The game looks fun, but I think it will be a day late and a dollar short of awesome.
Vidikron (FU) @ Oct 4th 2007 2:09PM
I love how any game with a cover system is now classified as a Gears clone even though cover systems existed before Gears. What is about this game and Naughty Dog's track record that makes you think this game will be a "poor man's" anything?
JL @ Oct 4th 2007 3:00PM
I thought Resistance was pretty damn awesome. My opinion though so whatev.
Fernando Rocker (NDF - Water Ring) @ Oct 4th 2007 1:04PM
This game doesnt have a chance against Mario Galaxy.
Konny @ Oct 4th 2007 1:17PM
We heard you the first time brotha.. and the 2nd 3rd, 4th,.... you sound like a broken record. And, get a hair cut, its not 1986 anymore.
RTYPE1124 @ Oct 4th 2007 1:33PM
Much like how the english language doesn't stand a chance against you butchering it.
License to ill @ Oct 4th 2007 3:44PM
Yeah try another hair style, something a little newer like a late 80's mullet...
riggs @ Oct 4th 2007 3:58PM
Hey man ignore them i like your hair that way, easier to tell that you actually have a vagina.
Chris @ Oct 4th 2007 1:11PM
This games seems to be forced down our throats now that Lair and Heavenly Sword were crap. All you hear about is "By the developers of Jak and Daxter", like that is some great proclamation.
I mean the games are liked, but they aren't THAT big. I can't blame Sony for trying to sell it, of course they need it to be successful, but the gaming press is just setting us up for another let down.
morganfell @ Oct 4th 2007 1:42PM
Forced down our throats? Really? You mean there will be Uncharted Mountain Dew Game Fuel everywhere you look? You mean I can watch 3 hours of the Uncharted Real World Weapons on the Military Channel? You mean Uncharted will be available for a midnight release at 7-11? You mean there will be ______________________(insert what ever situation here) on every channel talking about Uncharted? Seriously, Uncharted is not the one to be pointing fingers at right now. Excuse me while I drive to BK for a HALO burger.
Phranctoast @ Oct 4th 2007 3:43PM
thankyou morganfell for the post of the day!
riggs @ Oct 4th 2007 3:52PM
EPIC WIN morgan
donker @ Oct 5th 2007 2:26PM
Morganfell I would forced down our throats is a little harsh but so is your response. Halo 3 was promoted the way it was because it has a track record from Halo and especially from Halo 3. This game is being trumped up as one of Sony's big holiday games when really all we know about it is the previews have been mediocre and it was done by Naughty Dog. The parallels are there to compare them to Lair and Heavenly Sword. And if you don't like popular products being marketed to death then you better kill yourself because everybody big movie is marketed in exactly the same way so keep your bitterness to yourself.
Drekken @ Oct 4th 2007 1:13PM
Is this game in competition with Mario Galaxy?
Is a $250 system even in the same ballpark as PS3? Please rationalize your trollboy responses. PS3 is light years beyond your Nintendo. But if constently putting it down makes you feel better about yourself, fine. I wish I could block your comments so you dont make me hate this site.
Fernando Rocker (NDF - Water Ring) @ Oct 4th 2007 1:15PM
No one force you to read my comments.
Slaziman @ Oct 4th 2007 2:05PM
In terms of just unadulterated fun, I really thing Super Mario Galaxy is "lightyears ahead" of this game.
Slaziman @ Oct 4th 2007 2:14PM
Oh and I really don't like the Wii, in case you think I'm some kind of Fernando, but Super Mario Galaxy is just that awesome.
Vidikron (FU) @ Oct 4th 2007 2:14PM
Meh... I really hope Galaxy is fun. Sunshine was so freaking boring. But after this latest batch of videos I'm starting to lose interest. See, for example, the video that show the player navigating Mario around by point at and "grabbing" stars with the Wiimote just looks tedious and boring. I hope the game doesn't have too much nonsense like that.
Neon Jebus @ Oct 4th 2007 1:13PM
Watch out bro, that Spartan Lazer packs a punch!
*Kidding*
navstar @ Oct 4th 2007 1:28PM
1080p is the biggest technology marketing gimmick I've ever seen from Sony. They invented the term to one-up the 360, but outside of Blu-Ray movies, nothing can generate true 1080p. It's just way beyond the capacity of the 360 or PS3 GPU.
Phranctoast @ Oct 4th 2007 1:53PM
Even some 360 games are 1080p!
Shagittarius @ Oct 4th 2007 1:54PM
My PC does better than 1080p. There are plenty of lesser downloadable games that run at 1080p.
I'm sure by the end of the PS3 cycle we will be seeing all games (except the movie tie ins) running at 1080p.
Doesn't Lair run at 1080p?
Slaziman @ Oct 4th 2007 2:07PM
I don't think it's native, and the frame rate issues aren't worth it anyway.
And yeah games like Virtua Tennis 3 are in 1080p because you know, there is 2 moving characters, the rest is just a pretty looking background.
riggs @ Oct 4th 2007 4:01PM
1080p was created to "sell" higher priced HDTV's moron.
MRBlue @ Oct 4th 2007 5:00PM
While the NBA series from Sony's internal studios isn't turning heads it DOES have the ability to broadcast 1080p at 60fps.
People, people...get your facts straight before talking down on another system. My guess is that more and more Sony games will start touting their HD goodness (Killzone 2 will broadcast at 720p and the upcoming Gran Turismo will support 1080p) now that Halo 3 is showing its true non-HD colors.
Night Elve @ Oct 4th 2007 1:45PM
This game doesnt have a chance against Mario Galaxy ... Oh wait ... I'm not Fernando ... shit! ..
Hey Fernando say hello to the 80's!
Hullo folks!
Agathos @ Oct 4th 2007 1:52PM
Between the killer reviews coming out now for Folklore, along with Heavenly Sword, Resistance, Sigma, Warhawk, out and on my shelf already and Ratchet and Uncharted to be added soon I've got enough on my PS3 to keep me entertained through the holidays especially when I add in the games I've got on Wii and 360.
It's just still sad to see people like Fernando who are stuck to only one stystem... oh well I can't waste time feeling sorry for "consolers" and "fanbitches" when I've got as much gaming to catch up on as I do, bottom line: it's a great time to be a gamer and not a consoler.
Shagittarius @ Oct 4th 2007 1:58PM
Tell me about it, I've got 7 games to get this month and I've still got to finish:
Eternal Sonata
Halo 3
Ninja Gaiden Sigma
And then theres the ones you cant finish but I would like to play more like:
Quake Wars
Warhawk
I wish they could release games not all around christmas time, I feel bad of putting some games on the backburner to finish others.
I just Finished Blue Dragon last night, it couldn't even pony up for a game completed achievement. I hate the achievments in Blue Dragon, I played that game for 45 hours and all I got was 25 of 1000 points. Seems like they want you to play it without completing it for hundreds of hours.
Weaksauce...I don't care if the achievment if worth 0 points at least give me a medal for finishing the game.