Speaking to CVG Quantic Dream founder David Cage has shed some light on the scope of the studio's PlayStation 4 project which has yet to be officially unveiled.
"Trust me," said Cage, "if I showed you what we were doing you would be amazed. It's another world."
Speaking about Sony's next console Cage was keen to stress the freedom it offers the studio commenting "Generally it will give us more subtlelty, more nuance, more detail. New hardware provides new technologies that allow you to be more subtle. And that in itself does change the develoer's incentives.
"I probably wouldn't have attempted Beyond on PS2 because I wouldn't have thought I could get there. There would have been certain trade-offs."
In addition Cage revealed Beyond was partially inspired by a homeless man who sleeps right the studio "If you see homeless people in the streets, and if they are not fit mentally, some of them will be speaking to an invisible friend – and they can sometimes be very angry and very upset with that invisible friend. One of the starting points of Beyond was me thinking about what it would be like if one of those imagined friends actually existed."
Cage went on to add that he didn't want Beyond to be a sequel to Heavy Rain "I don't want to replicate the same things. The engine is completely different, we have built it from scratch."
Quantic Dream's CEO Guillaume de Fondaumiere has previously said "whatever we're working on on PS4 is not going to resemble what we're going on PS3… We're going to try and reinvent ourselves."
The developer, which intends to remain a Sony partner for the forseeable future, have registered web domains for Singularity on PS4 though they have not officially announced that that is the name of their upcoming game.
Beyond: Two Souls is set to be released on October 8th on PS3 starring Ellen Page and Willem Dafoe.
