Big-name console developers Naughty Dog and Insomniac are not assuming development duties on planned versions of their respective
Uncharted and
Resistance series for Sony's upcoming Next Generation Portable.
A
Game Informer hands-on preview reveals that Sony's Bend Studio is working on the new portable
Uncharted title, which has so far seen two Naughty Dog-developed entries on the PS3.
The Bend, Oregon-based studio is best known for the
Syphon Filter series and for the 2009 PSP port
Resistance: Retribution.
Insomniac, meanwhile,
revealed via tweet that Nihilistic Software is working on an upcoming
Resistance game for the NGP. The Bay Area-based Nihilistic worked on one of the iterations the cancelled
StarCraft: Ghost, and is currently developing Sony's motion-controlled PS3 mascot showcase
Heroes on the Move.
Developers and publishers often move development duties to a different studio when moving a series to portable systems, as titles like
Resistance: Retribution show.
Still, the fact that two major developers are passing up the opportunity to self-develop one of their flagship franchises to Sony's new portable is interesting.
Sony
brought out a wide variety of third-party publishers to pledge their support for its newly unveiled Next Generation Portable.
Many of those developers showed off portable adaptations of popular console-centric series at the unveiling, including Konami's
Metal Gear Solid, Sega's
Yakuza and Activision's
Call of Duty.
