 Infamous came during the end of the development for Sly 3 : Honor Among Thieves as the team began to look towards their next game . After spending the last six years on the same stealth game genre with the Sly Cooper games , they wanted to make something that was more " brazen and loud . " However , as fans of the " comic book " motif , they decided to develop it in the direction of a superhero game , working with the idea of an origin story that would allow the player to experience the growth of the character . Fleming stated that with the slower development time , they knew they needed to develop the game for the PlayStation 3 and that the work needed to complement their previous game , akin to how Shigeru Miyamoto 's The Legend of Zelda series contrasted his earlier Mario series . They also sought a project that would allow them to become familiar with the new PlayStation 3 hardware but had enough commonalities to allow them to bring their previous work on the Sly Cooper series forward . 
