wulfshelmut
I always felt like sony didnt make the ps2 live up to thier own hype. They promised the games would look really great wit the emotion engine and I remember seeing demos and articles about it is PSM. They even promised the ps2 would be able to go on the internet. All of this never came true and the games on the ps2 never looked as good as the emotion engine tech demos. It was all sonys world famous hype machine.
Jast3r_Rogu3
This is as old as xbox 360's technology.
BLACK_PHANTOM
Peter moore said that! Former Vice-President of Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business division! That Peter Moore!
Gee willy
I believe he said that in 2005 after seeing the E3 KZ2 video.
teh2Dgamer
Systems never live up to their tech demos. The problem with tech demos, is that they're using all of the systems power to render a few small scenes or sometimes they're not even using the dev kits, but just mockups of what game running at the systems specs should look like.
Here are a few tech demo examples:
N64 (FFVI tech demo made before Square ditched Nintendo)
PS1 (I believe that this is the reason why the PS2 was code named T-Rex for a short while)
Dreamcast
PS2 GT 2000 demo (this one was actually using the hardware)
PS2 Tekken demo (This one too was using the actual hardware I do believe, because It looks pretty much like Tekken Tag ended up)
I'm mainly posting these, because I found them interesting.
"You can communicate to a new cybercity. Did you see the movie The Matrix? Same interface. Same concept. Starting from next year, you can jack into The Matrix!" Ken Kutaragi (father of PlayStation and former Chariman/CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment), on his favorite movie and the PS2
Hell yeah, the ps2 was so much like the matrix it was crazy!
BLACK_PHANTOM
The diffrence between the 2005 K2 tech demo and the 08 Gameplay is minimal, in fact i think the 08 gameplay looks better
teh2Dgamer
Here's a vid I found showing what Sony's original plans for the PS2's online were. I'm still not sure why they never did any of it (HD movie downloads).
It's kinda like how they never brought the Pocketstation to the US, so a few Square RPG's that I have have Pocketstation support, yet no US pocketstation (I want my Cactuar mini-game from FFVIII damn it!)
Jast3r_Rogu3
BLACK_PHANTOM wrote:The diffrence between the 2005 K2 tech demo and the 08 Gameplay is minimal, in fact i think the 08 gameplay looks better
It does look alot better.
GOTY 2009.
teh2Dgamer wrote:Here's a vid I found showing what Sony's original plans for the PS2's online were. I'm still not sure why they never did any of it (HD movie downloads).Don't be a sap, Sony always pulls the same tricks and no-one ever catches on, they never had any intention of doing any of those things, news of the upcoming X-Box and it's planned online features turned up, so Sony did what they always do, made up some wild claims on what they've got coming, the whole point of it was to just deflate excitement for the other companies product. they did this repeatedly during the Dreamcast's first year, to make people wait for the PS2, and when it came it was missing half the features Sony claimed it was going to have
Also the N64 tech demo doesn't belong in your list of examples of how the real machine is always worse than it's tech demo, as it is clearly miles worse than many, many real N64 games
