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Heavy Rain Dev to Remain PlayStation Exclusive

These days, third-party exclusives are becoming rare. While Sony came out with a series of them early in PS3’s lifecycle — think Heavenly Sword, Lair, Haze and Resistance: Fall of Man — the company more often than not has to rely on the studios it owns outright to create PlayStation-only content. Twelve such studios exist, from Naughty Dog and Media Molecule to Polyphony Digital and Guerrilla Games, but Sony has also found an interesting source of even more exclusives from the independent French studio Quantic Dream.

Quantic Dream released its first PlayStation exclusive in 2010 in the form of Heavy Rain, and its upcoming PS3 swan song, Beyond: Two Souls, is due out this October (we recently played it, if you’re interested in learning more). The studio also recently confirmed that it’s working on its first PlayStation 4 game after rumors began to circulate that the game is called Singularity.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Video Games

PlayStation 4 Won't Support 4K Games, 3D 'Not a Focus'

Despite Sony’s business-wide emphasis on 3D technology in the last two two years, it chose to instead focus on 4K at CES this past January, making only brief mentions of the stereoscopic capabilities of its new products. Now, it seems that same philosophy is extending to the PlayStation 4. According to PlayStation Executive Shuhei Yoshida, the PlayStation 4 will support 4K video and photos, but 3D functionality will not be a focus.

“The PS4 supports 4K output, but only for photos and videos — not games,” Yoshida said. “PS4 games do not work on 4K.” While it’s possible that we may see tech demos that demonstrate the system’s capacity for 4K gaming, like Polyphony Digital‘s multi-display demos powered by several PS3s paired together, Yoshida says a single console cannot natively run games in the high-resolution format.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Tech