Well I would assume the PS3 was not actual gameplay. There's the difference

I remember that Ueda mentioned that the game had a ton of technical problems on the PS3. Maybe the system wasn't powerful enough to handle it so they switched development over to the PS4.

That's just my theory though.

@Mastercornholio:

The feather and foliage have a ton of "life", I don't think the PS3 could've handled that. Team ICO was about the little details that make the whole and those are little details that add life to the world and to Trico.

Whaaa. Are you sure you're not getting confused between the two?

Pretty sure you're getting the two mixed up..

The compression on the live stream made the visuals look ALOT worse than it was. The feathers on the beast looked very pixellated. When I watched a different source later, it looked MUCH better

I expected the game to look a great deal better on a PS4, but it's pretty clear that their goal here is producing a game in which Trico is a completely believable animal with believable and subtle emotions in gameplay, realistic animations that make you believe it is a real animal, in order to affect the emotions of the player at key beats, and also being able to anticipate the Boy's every move during platforming to save him from peril, like you saw Trico catching the Boy with its tail.

That's sounds pretty damn ambitious, even with PS4 hardware, and would take some truly advanced and well-programmed AI systems. Also, the fact that during all the climbing segments Trico doesn't clip through the environments at all, is really impressive. The game still looks incredibly gorgeous from the perspective of its art - I don't care that it looks like it could be a remastered PS3 game. We're lucky to have the game at all.

No. That goes against everything Shadow of the Colossus was about. It was about a single kid who's being used by forces he can't even begin to understand in a strange and dead world. Oh, but sure, just throw him into a city and have all of the magic and wonder of the previous game thrown out. Also, some things don't need to be followed up with a sequel. Their games were seen as the first pieces of art in gaming, we don't see Da Vinci painting Mona Lisa 2, 3, and 4, do we? No, the one Mona Lisa is profound and it kind of undermines the value of it to follow it up.

And yes, it does look like an indie game, do you know why that is? Because they inspired every indie game that takes this approach to storytelling, gameplay, visuals, etc. It's fine for indie devs to take inspiration from the people who started it all but it's not okay for the people who started it all to continue doing what they trailblazed in the first place?

Not every game has to be exactly how you want it and I honestly don't want it how you want it. They wanted to make a desolated world with puzzles. Sorry it doesn't have more question marks on a map to do.

Not to mention the massive number of animations that the guardian has and all the polygon calculations that have to be done to make it's feathers behave in reaction to that animation. That's basically like having thousands of cloth dynamics going at once. I dont' think I saw it repeat the same animation twice, even when just walking.

We have animators at my work who were gushing over that this morning.