Quantic Dream are the developers behind such now-cult hits like Heavy Rain and Indigo Prophecy, and their upcoming PS3 game– titled Beyond: Two Souls– will be releasing later this year. That doesn’t mean they aren’t working on anything for past that point though: Quantic Dream’s vice president has said that the company has been working with the Playstation 4 since the middle of last year:
“We received PS4 development kits – at the beginning it’s specs then it becomes early kits – very early on. We were among the first studios in the world to receive those kits.”
“Technology has been going on for quite a while now. We’ve started to work on the pre-production of that new game since the middle of last year. It’s a very ambitious project, so it’s going to start [production] when it’s ready. For us, a new console is another reason to try and innovate. What is certain is that whatever we’re working on on PS4 is not going to resemble what we’re doing on PS3… We’re going to try and reinvent ourselves.”
- Quantic Dream vice president Guillaume de Fondaumière
You’ve gotta wonder what the team can do with the power of the PS4 given their technical pedigree on the PS3. Recently it was revealed that Heavy Rain was made for something like $50M after marketing costs, but Sony went on to make a massive profit from it– if given even more money to make a game (and hire actors like Ellen Page and Willem Dafoe!) one has to wonder what they’ll manage to put out.
