Naughty Dog: "we're not working on anything for PS Vita"

By Robert Purchese Published 21 February, 2012

"Consoles play to our strengths as a studio the best."

Uncharted creator Naughty Dog has clarified that it is "not working on anything for PS Vita".

The studio's community man Arne Meyer was responding to a news story posted yesterday on Eurogamer.

The story was based on a GameTrailers interview with Sony's senior vice president of PlayStation brand marketing, Guy Longsworth.

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Longsworth was asked by GameTrailers TV host Geoff Keighley: "What about the top-top studios? The Uncharted game's not being done by Naughty Dog, and you've got amazing studios in Media Molecule, Guerrilla, Sony Santa Monica - are we going to see any of those guys playing with Vita? Or even Naughty Dog?"

To which Longsworth replied: "Yeah absolutely you will. You'll see a number of games coming out from all of our studios."

Eurogamer took this to mean Naughty Dog would develop for PlayStation Vita.

"I won't say never, ever, but there's no plans for it right now - we've always felt that consoles play to our strengths as a studio the best."

Arne Meyer, community man, Naughty Dog

Not so: "We're not working on anything for PS Vita," Arne Meyer explained on NeoGAF .

"I won't say never, ever, but there's no plans for it right now - we've always felt that consoles play to our strengths as a studio the best."

Meyer explained further: "I hate to sound like a treading the line spin-meister here, but I've said that traditionally consoles have played to our strengths - and desires to push the utmost limit of resources and memory our tech and engine.

"That can change with the right handheld, [that's] why I said I won't ever say 'never'. But we haven't encountered that yet - that's why Jak [& Daxter: The Last Frontier] wasn't an internal project for us.

"Of course, I should have expected the GAF hyperbole to go from there - but we've never made a handheld game, so us saying we're not working on anything at the moment shouldn't be some earth shattering surprise."

Vita game Uncharted: Golden Abyss is made by Sony Bend.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds. @Clert on Twitter.

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Comments (16) Latest comment 3 months ago

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  • Snake_2011 #1 3 months ago

    E3 will be very interesting this year PS3 games Vita games PS4 announcement maybe. will be great either way.

    what I mean is ND could be announcing a Vita title at E3 they will not want anyone knowing.
    Edited by Snake_2011 at 21/02/12 @ 11:53

  • NotSoSlim #2 3 months ago

    Sony have so many studios that ND don't really need to make a game for Vita
    Investing in studios has both pros and cons but certainly Sony have done it the right way as new IPs are still being made
    Edited by NotSoSlim at 21/02/12 @ 08:58

  • koopa #3 3 months ago

    ND is definitely better suited to consoles, but they need to get all their best studios working on portables as well, not just loaning their big IPs to B-teams like they did with PSP...

  • roz123 #4 3 months ago

    This is the difference between Nintendo and Sony, Nintendo has some of the best and well known developers in gaming working on 3DS titles.

  • BigDannyH #5 3 months ago

    That's dissapointing and a little worrying.

    Played through Uncharted 2 at the weekend in prep for both U3 and Golden Abyss arriving this week. What a brilliant game.

    Reviews seem to be positive so far for GA but is supposed to be lacking the shine of it's console brethren.

    One criticism I heard was that it didn't have any of the parts where the camera would fix in place to set up a cinematic action sequence. Those bits in U2 were the sort of things that really made it stand out for me and the only reason I can think of that GA doesn't have them is due to pushing it out in the launch window. Surely the Vita can cope with the occasional camera movement?

    This is the first I've heard of a developer directly criticising the PSV hardware limitations. Hopefully it's powerful enough to please most developers.

  • Ultrasoundwave #6 3 months ago

    As a Vita owner (as of tomorrow!) im disappointed by this news, but as a PS3 owner im happy!

    To be honest, i definitely think there will be another Uncharted game for the Vita and it looks like Sony Bend can be trusted with the responsibility.

    Will there be a Last of Us spin-off for the Vita though?????

  • NotSoSlim #7 3 months ago

    @roz123 So Sony doesn't? Last time I check every major developer has a game on Vita or coming to Vita.
    Sony don't need ND to make a game for the Vita and why not let them play to there strengths. Leave them on PS3 and PS4 of that's what they want as it won't hurt Sony either way
    Edited by NotSoSlim at 21/02/12 @ 09:20

  • frunk #8 3 months ago

    As a Vita owner (of mins ago) - bless Amazon and a speedy Royal Mail.

    I am not really diosappointed by this news.

    Horses for courses... I don't really want to see Naughty Dog being distracted from their type of game development when you have Sony Bend specialised in this area.

    Let the "big guys" come up with the innovative ideas on THIER platforms of choice and let then good ones filter down to handhelds. Then let your "indie" style masterminds provide you with those shorter, interesting experiences on the Vita first, with the good ones floating up to home console replete with new features.

  • Whitster #9 3 months ago

    Outside of all these little tid-bits of news are we actually going to see some more launch game reviews? I want to know EGs take on Motorstorm before tomorrow.

  • Beano #10 3 months ago

    I would still love to see a port of the J&D Trilogy on Vita. Or a new Daxter game.

  • roz123 #11 3 months ago

    @NotSoSlim

    No. Sony get the B teams to make the Vita games.
    Sony Bend doing Uncharted instead of ND
    They have a Cambridge studio doing Killzone instead of Guerrilla
    The devs that did Little Deviants got shut a few weeks ago
    Media Molecule are not doing the Vita version of Little Big Planet
    Resistance Vita is being made by Nihilistic not Insomniac

  • NotSoSlim #12 3 months ago

    @roz123 Yea but thats the bonus of having internal studios. Big debs are making games for the Vita so Sony doesnt need all there developers making Vita games right now.

    They all could be on PS4 none of us know. It's no different to Nintendo mate as they outsource games as well.

    From the outside it looks like Sony give there studios creative freedom which is only a good thing in my eyes

  • LEONOFDEATH #13 3 months ago

    They will. Just you wait.

  • BigDannyH #14 3 months ago

    If they can get smaller studios to port a couple of the bigger guys old PS3 games it'd be a start.

    I'm thinking Jak, Ratchet or even God of War, Resistance and Uncharted.

    Obviously that's assuming they'll run on the Vita.

  • ilmaestro #15 3 months ago

    "We prefer making movies to games, so we will stick to PS3... until Sony tells us otherwise"

  • Architect_z #16 3 months ago

    Just make The Last of Us