I agree with you Dev's as well should strive to be better and perfect their genre of choice..Now the 5$ is way way to much for soemthing just about water.. I know it can look beautiful (I love to look at the different types of water in a game it always feels scerene to me Farcry has beautiful water..) I know what you mean its to hype the console up just like how totem Ball did for the xbox live vision camera.. It came off very poorly but still had some vast potential.... I think and this is just speculative that Dev's look at other Dev's work and actually want to try to top them.. I would like to assume that since it seems like the truth... All in all it's good that someone showcases the power of cell even if it is just a prototype maybe it will spur the Dev's into spending more time with the CELL and harnessing that power and make an incredible game... By the way is Miasma in a Cartoon?????? Like a black clowd??????

Until you`d actually played it ..or even seen it for that matter ?

Send me an e-mail once it is unlocked, and killzone PS3 is ready. Hit me @ waitinggamer@supercomputer.2te raflop.com

... and I owned a PS3. How would I react?
I'd be happy for all the owners and maybe considering
buying myself one.
Is it so hard for 360-owners to hear that another console
has high potential? Who cares if it takes a couple of years to
create mind blowing games, when the existing ones are already
equal (...or nearly as good as some of you would say) to the 360.
Where's your problem? You don't want a PS3? Don't buy one!
I don't want a 360 (I got several - good - reasons for that).
I don't buy one.
Would I comment news for the 360? NO.

I usually don't comment on PS3 stories, but I felt I should make an exception, just to beat out the nutty flamewar that I'm sure will take place soon...

I want a PS3--really, I do. And the future for it DOES look bright. But the problem is not the potential or the games -- the problem is the price. I (and many other people I'm sure) would like to get a PS3, but starting at $500, it's simply not reasonable. I wish Sony would release a stripped down version, maybe cut-out a bunch of features that aren't necessary, so that they could drop the price. If the PS3 got down to $300-400 range, then I would be happy to buy it...

Though I prefer 360, this isn't some fanboy rant against Sony or anything. I want a PS3, but at $500-600, it's simply too expensive.

"it's too expensive" crap.for $100 dollars more,you get a high def movie player.for $200 more,you get it for 360.one system sounds cheaper.for $600 you get it all.even if you don't want to watch movies(doesn't make sense if you're going to play high def games,but not "watch"high def movies.tired of the "it's expensive" crap.

as for unlocking the cell,uh...hello...in a years time,ps2 got devil may cry,onimusha,tekken tag,gran turismo 3 and other games that were great over the launch games.and to this day,it's still getting games like sotc,okami,ff12,god of war2,dmc3,rogue galaxy,etc.xbox would be able to make better looking games since it had improved technology,but wait,"THE XBOX IS DEAD!"it won't be doing ANYTHING.

ps3 is not a pc.it's not a 360.it's not a wii.it's built different,say it with me:"d-i-f-f-e-r-e-n-t!&qu ot;(GOOD!)than the other systems.anything new takes time to learn.making something easy doesn't benefit you in the long run.it's like cheating in school,if you cheated by getting the answers from someone else,what happen when you need those skills or knowledge later on?you lose BIG TIME.

next generation games require next generation thinking.not the same ways of thinking.doesn't make sense to use the same type of ideas for future products.only a foward thinking person will be ready for tomorrows questions with tomorrows solutions.when cell is tapped,people are going to see things not possible on other systems.or more onscreen things generated on the fly that has to be programmed manually on other systems(or can't be done) which takes time.ps3 will make it easier with it's number crunching abilities.

say it with me: "procedural synthesis".GOOOOOOOOOD!!!

This justifys why you should wait until the price comes down before you buy a PS3. I'm sure that when we see games taking advantage of the CELL processor, in terms of physics and such, it will be great. However, the graphics will be limited.

Sorry, but you can't make graphics look better by taking advantage of CPU processing power.

There are better video cards on the market now that surpass the PS3 and XBOX360.

I think Sony needs to do something. Maybe really change up the strategy for selling the PS3.

In 3 to 5 years, I can see Microsoft coming with their next version of the XBOX that will have a video card that will surpass PS3 and XBOX360 offerings.

Remember, the we won't see the next version of the Playstaion after 10 years. This is what Sony has committed for the PS3.

Time=money. In business the key phrase is "git 'er done". Why devote such significant resources to a technology that I have already read is out of date.

If the PS3, through proper tapping of it's cells, allows programmers like Vivendi to emit a soothing ray that cures cataracts so be it-invest the time and money, but if we're talking something akin to GOW graphics,this is not a viable investment

it amazes me when you see things that were done years ago that we look at now and say"hey, that's new."take the electric car,if you want to see a good video,watch:what happened to the electric car? on dvd.what also amazes me is what lengths people in power will do to keep making money hand over fist by removing that product that would benefit all.that EV1 car would have been killer.

anyway,joe,you mentioned pc cards as getting more powerful.or the next xbox.we've known that since gaming started that things always advance.that's not new.it's what's behind the seens that is different.why do you see multichips designed to do all the work for you?because ONE CHIP can't do everything.it can't cut it.most games made now wouldn't even run on old chips.doing graphics,physics and AI at good framerates wouldn't be possible anymore.which is why aegia exists.why dual cores exist on pcs now.why 360's 3 cores exists.why "CELL" exists.more chips working together to get the job done.just like my example of moving a table.if i asked you to move it by yourself,and it was heavy,you couldn't do it without help.but if you asked me and others to help move it,it's a breeze.that's where things are going.more help to do the same task.even cell,capable of doing graphics,is getting help from rsx.

so,it's not about graphics,well it is to some extent,but it's really about new ways of doing things.and devs shouldn't be scared of the daunting task of relearning programming that cell requires.or any multichip design.

Unlocking Wii's Power, all console's have unlockable power stupid ass stories, sheeesh!.

This was an interview about unlocking the power of a cell after a forum held by IBM. It wasn't an article saying the ps3 has power to unlock but no other console does. Get that chip off your shoulder you douche.

Is how he dodged the question about whether he would rather work on a super-powerful, but hard to develop-for system, or whether he would prefer an easier to develop-for, but less-powerful system. Because in all that I have read, time=money (as someone else pointed out) and gaming is a business. If it takes longer to make an "equivelant" quality game on the PS3, then the devs LOSE money, because they had to pay their people more (due to the longer dev time) than the "same" game on the 360. Throw in the fact that the 360 is easier to develop for with better tools in general, and over the lifetime of the system, you get more, better games on the easier to develop-for system, i.e., the 360. For instance, Crackdown came out last week, Graw 2 next week. Two AAA titles in half a month! The PS3 finally got "another" AAA game in Virtua Fighter (if you consider Resistance a AAA game, which is apparently debateable. Poor Resistance, having to be compared to such a totally different game like GOW), so the PS3 has 2 AAA games in 3 1/2 months. Sure, new system, yada yada, guess we have to WAIT some more, whatever. (By the way, WII owners are waiting for another good game after Zelda, and they are still waiting. Looks like Mario Galaxy and Smash Bros. wont be out until NEXT YEAR. Have fun while it lasts, I guess). So, to make a long post short, sure, 8 years from now you might see a game on PS3 that totally blows all 360 games away, but the 360 has more, better games, and is and will get them quicker. Remember, one of the reasons the PS2 dominated last-gen wasn't because the games looked better, the Xbox had the PS2 beat in graphics, hands-down. But the PS2 had MORE games overall-- and this time around it looks like the 360 will win that one.

Quote:
"[We’ll have to] explore things such as "procedural synthesis," which really has exciting potential on the PS3. Rather than creating all these environments and all these behaviors by hand, now we’ve got a lot of this power, [so] we can come up with ways that the processor can create environments, and create artificial intelligence rules that kind of emerge with gameplay and adjust to the gamers' input, so we can have a lot more variety.".......

Didn't I always tell you that. I absolutely agree with blue-dragon's Mr. Sakaguchi(although his own first 360 game has nothing of it) that 'next-gen is all about seamless interactivity'..., something that already started with PS2's Colossus game...now doable to totally procedurally produced content rather than reading from the disk, only with the power of the PS3 !