Thats pretty amazing considering how great this game is. Can't wait to see how much they use for part two.

Really that's almost a year old story. And now it's popping out everywhere. Last time they said that uncharted uses ~30% of ps3's power.
But it's basically the same thing.

"I guess we're probably going to try to draw...it's more about the quality of pixels in terms of the image, even more than what we've done, because we have been using the...we only used something like 30%, so we can use much more here."

http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?pager.offset=2&cId=3164368

Whoa 30%-40%? That means Uncharted could have been more better than it currently is. What about MGS4???

i wonder how much killzone 2 is using? does anyone know???

funny considering that the game doesn't run at full 1080 HD and the XMB is sluggish when access in the game idk it could be that they didn't have the right tools a year ago anyway i hope that part 2 uses these new tools for good

 if this is true...hmm i dont know how to finish this statement.. well, look at gta3, it came out in 2001, now look at gta sanandreas in 2004..

wtf, this enws is really old

It is an old story, but meh.  Anyway, I'm having a blast playing through it again.  Not only that, but I have to say that I didn't fully appreciate the graphics when it came out.  It was such an early game, I didn't realize hot beautiful it was until I got to compare it to some of the lesser titles of this generation.  Uncharted is truly beautiful and where I wasn't sure it I wanted to trophy hunt again, the look sucked me right back in to playing.

i loved uncharted. i only rented it, but it was the best rental ive had. the only complaint was that when u turned nathan  sometimes the screen would often tear

i wish they had trophies for every difficulty of the game, i find these achivements to easy

i like for the fact they developed there OWN set of tools (edge tool) to equiped them with uncharted using the help of sony's ps3 witch is great cuz with its potential and power,you can creat lots and lots of possibilities.... thats wut i appreciate about noughty dog,insomniac,and guerilla games,is for the fact thru the ps3 they were able to develope their own set of tools to use in creating AMAZING games.

 

and it only keeps getting better,with more experience of developing for the ps3,means more AWSOME looking games.

Uncharted 2 will be off the chain in Visuals since they only used 30-40% for the first one in Visuals.

 

Naughty dog FTW!!

Although rather old hat, this news does imply something that there are still two-thirds of the processor waiting to blind us with cris graphics and stunning gameplay.

I eagerly await the arrival of the games that start to use this untapped potential.  I'd really like to see a league table of cell usage for all games.  As sayeed pointed out, Killzone2 would be an interesting benchmark.

I read somewhere that Killzone 2 is using 80% of the PS3s power. I wonder if its possible to use 100% of the PS3s power :0 That would be amazing

what about the 360? Or are all of there games using 100% of the power?

If everyone devs use  the the kit then sky's the limit. You see what they did on LBP at the E3 this year. that was crazy.

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 this was my favorite game last yr hope they make a sequel soon

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Re Kz2 it stated somewhere that it uses 4-5 of the spu's in the cell but not 100% of the time iirc.

KZ2  so far uses 4 cell's.

WOOOT GO SONY!!!! if uncharted:2 uses 50% imagine how it will be!!!

KZ2 uses roughly 4 SPE's in the Cell. That does not, however mean that it's using 2/3 of the PS3's overall potential . We don't know how much of each SPE it's using, and there's most likely not much exploitation going on. (By exploitation, I mean making enemies that are not yet to you have no AI and things of that nature. Same applies for physics, and all sorts of visuals. It's the kind of thing that makes a God of War on the PS2.)

@14   games on the 360 capped out the limitations far earlier... sad but true.

im getting sick of these numbers because im sure its BS. There are difference between using every single power to full extent and using them. UDF was pretty awesome, and i dont mind them saying they could do better, but there is not a program that tells you how much you used. And they used as much as they could. they shouldn't know how much they weren't able to do. They pushed as far as they could, how would they know whats left when they hit the wall? Kojima stated that they did as much as they could, and even though there is still space for more, they used 4 years on it and if they couldn't find more im sure they are at 90% if not more. The last 10% should be sparing some resources and using them differently, i dont believe in their 30-40% BS.

 

edit: i dont mind them stating something like this to say they can do a lot more, but they are insulting the hard work of other dev teams by saying they could have done at least 2 times better.

Has anyone else noticed that since Uncharted's update that the game now runs in 1080p?

 

Such an incredible game. I'm going to be going back through it soon enough. One of the PS3's best games so far.

It makes sense, why would they want to use full potential in their first game? You need to improve in the sequal to appeal to the customers so they probably planned to not use the most of the potential right away. It is a good idea.

@22 i do not see how them saying they only got 30% out of the ps3 insults anyone else , they are only speaking of their own work.

I believe Kojima said that his team pushed the PS3 as far as they could. Besides if MGS4 is 90% then how do you explain Killzone 2, RE5, and how do you expect them to max out a console so early when the PS2 did not achieve GOW and FF12 visuals so long after developers had already started working on the PS2's hardware.

It's hard to imagine Uncharted used 30 to 40% of the PS3's potential. What will games be like in two years?

There is also a difference between using the cell's 100% power ,and using it EFFECTIVELY. Even if Killzone maxed out the SPU's, there is probably still room for more improvement in using that power more efficiently.

imagine the possibilities, twice as good... Wwo

Comment 20.  hey i just wanted to say that when this game came out a lot of people were saying that the enemies were very good and tactical and i agree. not the best but they do have pretty good al. and for nature you may be mostly right but in the begging of chapter 3 with sully. i climb the rocks and found a monkey siting there and then it ran away.  just throwing that out there in case no one notice

correct me if im wrong but i think thats what al is lol

psn id: gingo... if games can look that good and be as epic as uncharted at only using 40% then ps3 owners have a lot to be happy about in the coming months and years

Hmmm interesting

ps3 is incredibly powerful to think that that game looked pretty cool and they only were using about 30-40% imagine if they used all of the ps3s potential

by the way just look at some of the psn games and even look at what they do to some of the older games. I got 1942 and I used to pla it all the time when I was little and the add some texture to it and got it running at 1080p and it is very smooth. Even my wife loves to play it.

 

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this is old news guys... next do a story about sliced bread and how you wont have to cut it yourselves. DURRRP

First, they said that Uncharted was using 10-15% of PS3's power, now there saying 30-40%, I wish they would make up there mind's. Still an awsome game thou, still playing it to this day. @sayeed, KZ2 is using 41/2 SPE's, which is a little over 50% of PS3s power, because developers only have 6 SPEs out of 8, to use for development, which is still double, than what the 360 crapbox has, which is only 3 SPEs. PSN ID-Demented007

Not old news guys.. this is a recent quote from the Naughty Dog dev on Sony's Edge tools. Believe me this is very important for PS3! For example, if these tools had come out 1 year before the PS3 launch, the war with 360 would be over by now because everything would have come out sooner with better graphics. PS3 need these tools to allow dev's to make better games with less effert and cost. Great to finally hear good news on Edge!

@ 36

actually the 360 has no SPEs but 3 PPEs

The PS3 has 1 PPE

Well its good that third party developers can use this engine if they wish to for free.

Uncharted is such a great game. IMO the best game to arrive on the console. I do find it funny that dev's come out saying these things, like the sequal is going to be twice as good. As long as it's on the same level as the first they will be just fine, because it was a great game to start with. Regardless of how much cpu power they have to work with, they are still limited by what the gpu can render, even if it's working with the cpu to acomplish that. If only game developers would take such time on PC titles, my old 8800gts's potential would still not be fully realized:) Oh well, thats where consoles have the upper hand. PC is always #1, but you definately have to pay for it, and then keep paying for it lol.

Well personally I don't care how many % it used uncharted was/is an amazing game. And if you look at the first 2 years of the PS2 it was pretty amazing and everyone was in awe with what it could do, then just as everyone thought okay it's reached it potencial, they did GOW2, RE4,Shadow Of colossus,FFXII.... And even now they still push out games that keeps pushing the PS2 to new levels... So the same will go for the PS3 and if you have a look at what it's been capable of in it's first 2 years(well almost) you can just imagine where it will be at close to the end of it's 10year "life cycle"...

yeah but this is good but i didnt like uncharted as much as others cause i felt the game was extremely linear and i hope that they used all that space on gameplay and graphics cause there was not much choice of what to do and i expect to be able to move around more freely in a nex gem game! Uncharted was really good and i do hope these use these tools as many people have complained about the ps3 being complicated and this seems to be a good shortcut!

Uncharted is awesome with great graphics however 1080p and removing the screen tearing would have improved it so much

i liked the demo of that game, might pick it up when i next see it for a good price. the ps3 has a lot of potential it would seem!

this is funny joke I have ever heard, do your work instead of babbling crap

Tell me about it, hearing that noise on my PS3 kinda makes me think if breaks done lol.

Thats crazy only 30%-40% cant wait to see ps3 at 100%