Guerilla: Killzone 2 needs Blu-ray
"Impossible" to deliver shooter sequel on any other console
Aug 31 2007
Heavy memory demands from Killzone 2's high-detail warzones mean that Guerilla's opus simply couldn't work on any console using standard DVD discs.
"Xbox 360 doesn't have Blu-ray," Hermen Hulst, managing director at Guerilla explains, "PlayStation 3 does. [A single level] is 2GB. We really need Blu-ray to make the game. I don't know how you could fit it on Xbox 360 without taking some shortcuts".
"Blu-ray isn't important for watching movies," Hulst continues,"we need it for making games".
But it's not simply Blu-ray's storage capacity that makes PS3 the only viable platform, as the two developers informed Official PlayStation Magazine during a recent interview. Hulst stresses: "I firmly believe that what we've shown we can get out of [PS3] would be difficult, if not impossible, to deliver on a competing machine".
And Ter Heide adds: "We literally can't do this stuff on any machine other than PlayStation 3. If you're developing a multi-platform game, you have to find a common denominator between the systems and say: that's what I'm developing for. Whereas someone focused on a single platform can really take advantage of everything it has to offer."
Sign up to the 12DOVE Newsletter
Weekly digests, tales from the communities you love, and more
Ben Richardson is a former Staff Writer for Official PlayStation 2 magazine and a former Content Editor of 12DOVE. In the years since Ben left GR, he has worked as a columnist, communications officer, charity coach, and podcast host – but we still look back to his news stories from time to time, they are a window into a different era of video games.