The Last of Us Remastered will run at 1080p and 60fps and while the game will give players the option to lock the framerate at 30fps, Naughty Dog is aiming for 60 in all future game.
Speaking to Eurogamer, Naughty Dog's Arne Meyer explained that the studio made the The Last of Us Remastered, which launches next week, in a bid to try things out with the PS4.
"A lot of it was because we could try something out on our PS4 engine. How far can we do it? Can we do a 1080p, 60fps game? We always wanted to do that, but for the types of effects we wanted to put on screen 720p30 was just fine. Now with the push to go even further that's not fine enough. So we're trying to rise to meet that kind of challenge too."
He added that the Santa Monica based studio has always targeted the 1080p and 60fps sweetspot since it began working on PS4 and this will continue to be the case for Uncharted 4: A Thief's End.
"I think that's what we want to push for with anything we're doing on this generation. That's sort of the mandate from when we were building the PS4 engine. Let's see if we can do this and hit it. We hit it with The Last of Us Remastered, so why not stick with this?"
Sony Worldwide Studios' president Shuhei Yoshida recently said the first three Uncharted games would make "a good candidate" for re-release on PS4. Regarding the possibility of Uncharted Remastered, Meyer commented:
"It'd be nice to give players the opportunity to go back and play the older games, and people who are new to the PlayStation platform. I think that'd be great – but I have no idea how that could fall into our timeline."
While Naughty Dog has been working on The Last of Us Remastered since the game originally shipped a year ago, the project has only had a dedicated team of thirty working on it for the last six months.
Regardless of whether Uncharted Remastered is ever released, Naughty Dog will be aided in their graphical goals by the PS4's GPU as this new benchmark test shows.
The Last of Us Remastered launches on July 29th in North America and on August 1st in Europe while Uncharted 4: A Thief's End is set for 2015.
