14 DAY TRIAL // Ready at Dawn, the studio that has traditionally created the God of War series spin-offs on the PlayStation Portable handheld, will not be handling the development of a title in the franchise for the new Vita device because it is already working on a game for a next-generation platform.
Ru Weerasuriya, who is the chief executive officer at Ready at Dawn, has told GamesIndustry that, “It’s taken us time to get there and we’ve wanted to do new IP, we’ve been working on it for a while, and we felt the time was right and it was just the perfect alignment of everything that was happening.”
He added, “And I think the big thing for us was just that we took the decision early to just skip a generation. I know that most people would have jumped on the current generation. Most people ask us that, how do you go from a handheld to a next generation console? I think it’s the right thing to do. Sometimes you’ve just got to make your bets and live by them.”
Ru Weerasuriya has admitted that his team sometimes regrets the fact that it had to turn down a God of War video game for the Vita, but they just were not able to work on the Kratos adventure and on their current project at the same time.
Still, the developer is supportive when it comes to the features of the PlayStation Vita and says that the team would love to work with it in the future.
Weerasuriya has not made any further comment on the game that Ready at Dawn is actually working on, but a next-generation focus and the traditional link with Sony might mean that the company is ready to work on the much-rumored PlayStation 4.
Sony has repeatedly denied that it is working on a new home console and insists on its ten-year plan for the PlayStation 3.