Originally Posted by
Poppincaps
I feel like you really don't understand game development. The rendering features included in this game are absolutely innovative. Watch Digital Foundry's review to see what I mean. Having that high quality across the board as well as supporting so many actors and particles on screen requires some seriously impressive work behind the scenes. That's where most of the time is going to be spent. It's going to take far more time to build out these rendering features and optimizations than it is to program a new gameplay feature.
So if we're talking time here, then it is incredibly impressive that Insomniac is creating games that are pushing the boundaries of what games can look like while also releasing games at a far faster pace than any other developer that creates games at the quality they do.