Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart’s Portals Could Have Been Done on PS3 Implies TT Games Founder

Thus far, Sony hasn't delivered many exclusives that really push the PlayStation 5 in unique ways, with the big exception being Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart. Co-ordinate to sales pitch, the game'south rift-hopping gimmick could but exist possible with the PS5 and its speedy solid-country drive, but is that really true? In a contempo video, which you can cheque out below, TT Games founder and veteran developer Jon Burton claims Insomniac Games may have stretched the truth just a flake.

The crux of Burtons argument, is that the way the rift hopping was sold in trailers – Ratchet tin can spring between full worlds in the glimmer of an centre – isn't quite the reality. Instead, when he jumps between worlds information technology's mostly to small Pocket Dimensions that merely include very limited compages or sequences in which a series of very brief cutscenes or limited snippets of gameplay flash by. Burton argues nigh of this could be done on older machines by just loading content in the background as games take been doing for years. He goes so far every bit to hint the trick could be pulled off on a PS3.

To be articulate, in [Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart] they're using the SSD to do everything properly, I'chiliad just explaining how other pretty simple techniques can exist used to achieve exactly the same affair on older hardware. I designed something for Lego Star Wars iii where you could instantly bandy back and forth between ii vastly-unlike sections of gameplay, and you tin can ever see both sections of gameplay happening at the aforementioned time, which is even harder to attain. [...] And that's all running on a PS3 two panel generations agone.

I highly doubtfulness the Rift gimmick would work likewise on a PS3 – in that location would likely be more than stuttering and obvious seams in the process, but could a basic version of it exist done? That seems plausible plenty. Solid-land drives are still a major key to the future of gaming, but they haven't truly been tapped into yet.

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Autonomously is bachelor at present on PS5 and is a very good game, regardless of whether the rifts crave the SSD (check out our total review here).