PS3 has "a lot of legs left" and it shouldn't be "dismissed", says Evolution

Evolution Studios' Paul Rustchynsky, game director for MotorStorm RC, believes PS3 has "a lot of legs left in it" and doesn't feel people should "dismiss it right now" even with all rumors of next-gen floating around the Internet.

Speaking in an interview with Official PlayStation Magazine, Rustchynsky feels that like PS2 before it, the "technological barriers" will be "pushed quite until the past minute," as Naughty Dog, he said, has done with The Last of Us - proving there's more that can be used inside the black box than what is assumed by the public.

"I think the PS3 has a lot of legs left in it yet, I don’t think people should dismiss it right now," he said. "There are so many exclusive developers working for Sony right now, making really exciting games and I don’t many of those have been announced yet.

"As proved with the PS2, I don’t think the technological barriers are pushed quite until the past minute. I think The Last Of Us, when they announced that trailer was all in engine, I think people were wowed by that and rightly so. Those guys are incredibly talented."

Rustchynsky said that at Sony, a lot of internal technology groups work with each other, and use a lot of Sony-developed internal tech to create games. So, using Naughty Dog as an example again, if the firm "innovate and produce something really good that’ll proliferate through the streams," other studios will get access to the technology.

"It’s difficult though sometimes because technology isn’t always compatible," he said. "People usually build things in isolation, they won’t always think about how you might want to implement in their games. People will develop different technologies but it won’t always be applicable for your game.

"Sony do work together well as a worldwide studio. The results you see from internal studios is that we always get the best out of the platform. That’s partly because we know the platform the best and also we collaborate as developers."

To reiterate: PS3 is still relevant; developers can still create great-looking games for it; and tech created at Sony can be shared with others.

Motorstorm RC will launch alongside Vita February 22, and a PS3 version will be released as well.