Insomniac Games‘ next title is going to be a PlayStation 5-exclusive, meaning it will be the team’s first real next-gen game.

„[Marvel’s] Spider-Man[: Miles Morales] is an open-world title. We built all of this tech to stream that open world as you go through it. When you’re downtown, there’s not much Midtown in memory. You can see it from a distance, but then as you go farther north, we pull in those areas. No Ratchet game has ever been constructed that way. They’ve always been: here’s a level, load the level, now you’re in that level and you play it. But by switching over the Ratchet world to use that same streaming architecture, we can pack more and more density and content and quality in every corner of a Ratchet & Clank world because we’re happy to ditch the west side of Nefarious City when you go to the east side and that type of thing.

With the SSD, it’s easy to say there are no load times, and look how fast we can load this other area, but it has all sorts of knock-on effects. We don’t need to be as careful with how we package our data. All of the assets for an area don’t need to be collated on the spinning hard drive to get the right streaming speed out of it. It makes the game smaller on your hard drive; it means we can patch it more easily. That’s a nice bonus. We unload the things literally behind you from a camera perspective. If you spun the camera around, we could load them before you see that. That lets us devote all of our system memory to the stuff in front of you right now, that you need to experience at that moment,” Mike Fitzgerald, the tech director of Insomniac Games, told The Verge.

He also mentioned how ray tracing has been implemented in the new Ratchet & Clank: „The ray tracing is nice and shiny — well, literally shiny — and it’s very obvious when it’s working. But it does have a really subtle effect on the materials. There’s a part where you’re in the spaceship with Rivet and Clank, for example, and you’re not actually looking at a reflective surface per se, but just all of the metal things in that cabin, which are all curved in different ways, are all showing the effect of those characters shifting position in a realistic way. It takes us a long way toward getting the same feeling of an animated film,” Fitzgerald added.

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart will launch exclusively on PlayStation 5 on June 11. The video below is from the UK PlayStation Access channel.

Source: WCCFTech