And no clear outlook for a return ever...Microsoft is clearly playing with their share-holders, investors and consumers alike.
Here's how Shadow of the Colossus makes itself a truely all-time next-gen game. More detailed descriptions with pictures of some of these features are in the article linked in the above post#1. Here are high-lights with a few more features. The AWESOME, multi-award winning game does:
-HDR,
-Motion-Blur,
-Depth-of-field,
-Stencil Shadowing(same as Doom-3 but even Doom-3 couldn't do soft shadows, this game does it big time),
...
Yeah ! With three games out of six Sony truely ROCKS. WOW ! Shadow of the Colossus is still getting great awards and why not, it is the all-time next-gen game ever ! Just look at some of the next-gen technology behind it with picture-demonstrations:
http://www.team-ico.net/sot...
Check the above link out you won't regret it. Even on a 7 years old system what THIS game brought was beyond belief, espe...
I respect MS for making Windows OS, afterall all of us use some version of it as I mostly use WinMe when at home and it supports mostly every game uptill 2005...that is another thing MS can't keep good at a gaming console, they ain't hardware guys, and hell no they aren't gaming guys either, also that Vista is mostly like HDTVs, its use ain't gonna frequently happen untill two years from now the only thing is that a TV is long lasting and will retain its importance but an OS clearly disolves ...
...please more, they reminded me that there is just no game out there that has THIS level of terrain undulation as in racing games. Superb ! I never get tired of getting consumer images, please post Resistance bosses images if you have 'em !
PSN is ROCK-SOLID, Considering that:
-PSN has only launched 5 months back in comparison to 6 years of Xbox-Live.
-Most of the PS fans need to move towards the online trend yet as PS2 has so many quality single-player experiences that it conquered the whole current-gen all the way without any solid online service.
-So early in the life cycle, PSN's ultimate next-gen upbringing will arrive in the form of 'HOME' and 'Little-Big-Planet' in just a few ...
Insect screens and a whole family shot in the middle of the page here:
http://www.gamesarefun.com/...
Such a beautiful game. Even when the art-style is cutesy-based the stand-alone level of detail is staggering. Each leaf and weedy vegetation is a seperate poly model with beautiful shadows and stuff. I believe it will be a living, breathing world with farm animals a...
This is it, this direction is another great aspect of PS3 utility. Downloaded PS1 games running from the PS3 HDD...JUST AWESOME ! Tekken 2 will be humongous and man I'm thrilled for vibration, its just Cheeka-Booom ! PSP's purchase has never been so justified than is now, this is called connectivity, this is called product royalty...two systems of the same breed having compatible-connection...its all about true next-gen !!!
I remember a few screenshots I got once from qj.net but here's the first true look into the things. Being without regional coding, anyone can get a PS3 game anywhere in the world. This is a great fun title, a major focus is on collection of diverse insects whose beautiful 3D models are really astonishing and the approach is totally fun and informative.
Related info:
http://ps3.ign.com/articles...
MotorStorm,
F1,
GT:HD,
Ridge Racer 7,
Dirt(Made by Sony's technology) and
Burnout-5(especially focussed on PS3)
this year and GT5 early next year with full damage physics...PS3 is a racing fan's dream come true !!!
Losing 4 Billion on first Xbox means killing one Donald Trump out of the face of the planet. Also it became a 'loss-leader' which means even its shutting down of production is a continuation of loss for MS.
Killing the xbox means they abandoned their fanbase with such short-term thinking.
Shipping of 360 around 10 million and selling around 9 million in a whole year without competition is not a feat at all, especially when a 7 years old PS2 sold around 10 millio...
HaHaHa ! I'm amazed how some of you folks still don't know the difference between a PS2 engine(GT4's) blown into HD and launched as a PSN demo called GT:HD with only one stage and even that looked far superior than PGR3 which was all next-gen level worked upon title.......
.......and a game whose not even a single screenshot has been launched, that will be launched in early 2008, has damage and the largest number of vehicles ever in a videogame called GT5, being developed by world's le...
Lets see, PS3 is:
-A device that approaches more towards the realization of 'Virtual Reality' by putting more emphasis on doing actual physical world like calculations rather than only animating the assets. Cell is already proving through MotorStorm and Lair how a living, breathing simulation of the non-virtual world can exist in the series of machine codes. The PS3 GPU already 'Synthesizes Reality' through getting a chuck-by-chunk based 'calculated' data from Cell rather than ...
PS3's potential, the progressive mesh thing is just awesome, things like:
-Rippling giant ocean waves(totally real time fluid simulation)
-25,000 soldiers with individual AI(Hell from the Cell)
-32 X 32 km environments(twice as large from Oblivion's 'total' space
and in much more beauty, physics, interactivity and motion-sensing !!!)
-Everything simulated from water to clouds to smoke to particles to fur to fire...just everyth...
First were:
-Oblivion
-Saint's Row
-NG Sigma(totally not a remake, a total overhaul with new
stages, 1080p, self-shadowing, no-loading, 60fps, dual-weilding etc.)
-Test Drive Unlimited(its on PS2, another 'living' Sony platform and other than gfx, it is feature perfect !)
-Enchanted Arms
-Two Worlds...
I am very hopeful for Bioshock as well, I think it will be announced after its launch on...
So I do believe KZ2 will be huge. I am looking forward to really bada
$$ interactivity. Looking at the Lair's recent videos I realized the true potential behind Cell, and to know that it was made to be only a launch title...Woof ! I don't remember where I read but I'm mentioning it again that KZ2 has 8 vehicle types and 64-player online, rivaled only by Resistance's 40-player online matches yet.
...the WAR is definitely over, not because its the most popular RPG ever, but because it has the most perfect balance of characters, environments and story-drive that is an icon in itself in the gaming community. It has the cutesy as well as blunt tragedy in it, the culmination of all things that Japanese games stand for. This title is rivaled only by FF-XII. Really hope this news is true !!!
Just like the David Jaffe article, folks are trying their finest to bash PS3, they are noe letting a single hitch get in the way...
TheMART, Hahaha man, that was ridiculous, you are totally going against the recent news. Its been so long 360 out there, like 1 and a half year, and it couldn't do half of what PS3 has accomplished in Japan in only 5 months. While you mentioned USA...hmmm...PS3 sold more within the first 3 months in as you said "360-backyardin'-USA" ; than...
Totally owned by this title. In the 3rd video the rotating moutain got my tongue away, not that I've previously been left speechless for a long, long time when Shadow of the Colossus hit PS2 its remains a behemoth forever...but looking at those giant boulders with such sick poly-count, and dynamic lighting changing with their rotation...all the while firing and then shutting eyes, its what next-gen is all about, an experience not had before !!! A day-1 buy for me !
The first scan has at least 3 New Images and the 3rd one has at least 1 new for me. This game is so beautiful that it all looks like water-coloured artwork. Truely amazing !!!