Cage: PS3 is by far the best platform for Heavy Rain

Heavy Rain's David Cage has noted that the PS3 is by far the best platform for his title. He noted that in terms of creating emotion from believable characters, the PS3 simply can not be beat in this area and it's a console the whole studio loves.

With a hesitation, a sigh and a pause, Cage responded, “Whatever I answer, my answer will be suspicious… I think it had to be on PlayStation 3 for two main reasons: the hardware, the architecture of the PS3 is extremely powerful in the way it is structured. If you make a real PS3 engine, then you can have really fantastic performances. If you try to port from another platform, then it becomes difficult.”

He continued, “This is a console we all love at the studio. I play PSOne, PS2, it’s really a part of my culture. The controller is part of my home… and it’s a really, really powerful console. I’m not so much into graphics, to be honest with you, I don’t believe you need ultra realistic graphics to get emotion, you can get that with very low graphics. But we wanted to create emotion from believable characters, that was the idea. With this approach PS3 was by far the best platform.”