Awesome PS3 gfx....

lol the more the merrier you could always just post articles onto my site though. Makes it easier... I will even split the debt 50-50 :D...

Nintendo is coming.
 
That's why I made it blogspots problem ;) You can use them as a backend and route to a local address, I never figure out how though.
 
Just found this also on IGN...

March 22, 2006 - Following the cooling-off period from last year's Electronic Entertainment Expo, Sony Computer Entertainment President of Worldwide Studios, Phil Harrison had something to prove. "People didn't believe that The Getaway demo was real-time," he said during his keynote address today at GDC. "I'm going to bring back the same demo today to prove that it was."

And that's exactly what Harrison did. Booting up the same scene from The Getaway shown at last May's event, the president moved the camera around to show everyone that it wasn't a pre-rendered movie at all. Shifting camera perspectives, he zoomed in and out of London's Piccadilly Circus and revealed new angles to a stage that hadn't been seen before.
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http://ps3.ign.com/articles/697/697746p1.html
 
doobiwan said:
That's why I made it blogspots problem ;) You can use them as a backend and route to a local address, I never figure out how though.
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lol I was joking about the costs, I am hosting overseas so I only pay a very minimal amount that I am more than capable of handling by myself ;)
 
GavinMannion said:
That proves nothing, he just moved a camera around. I will believe it again when an independent person gets to actually play the game...
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I'm missing something here...

What changed? So what if the pics are old? It's not pre-rendered, so what's the issue about?
 
There is no proof he was using a PS3, there is no proof it can play at that level since he just moved a camera.

There is no AI involved and it could just be a screen saver for all we know.

I thought it was ingame.
 
GavinMannion said:
There is no proof he was using a PS3
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lol, what else would he be using. That's like watching a trailer for an upcoming 360 or Wii game and saying... "there's no proof that's for the 360 or Wii..."

there is no proof it can play at that level since he just moved a camera.
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True, still impressive though...

There is no AI involved and it could just be a screen saver for all we know.
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Once again, see first comment...

I still don't see why it's such a big deal because someone found older pictures of the game. Obviously they started designing on the game long ago...
 
This is why I said an independent person must try it out.

These demo's are often run on power CGI pc's in the back and they just fake the fact that it is running on a PS3/Xbox whatever.

Yeah it looks fantastic there is no doubting that but until it is a game of some sort the graphics mean nothing. The graphics are the cherries, if they take all the power and leave nothing for AI the game is ****. It needs both.
 
Retro, the PS3 dev kits weren't even stable by March 06. development preceding that is done on development workstations, it could have been run on a render server for example or a very high end PC. (Alternatively you could do like Mecenaries 2, Assassins Creed, UT3 and Devil May Cry 4 and do you demo's on a 360 ;) )

I'm not saying that he was lying, but when all is said and done, it's Sony, I'll take what he has/had to say with a large handful of salt until such time as I see this running with my own eyes. They said the same thing with Motostorm and look how that turned out.

Considering the nature of the shot, I wouldn't rule out the possiblity that in game could look like that, I can see where they could work around the texture memory issues. But i've also just watched clips of the Halo 3 ALPHA, and this makes me giggle with delight at what H3 RTM could look like.

After all that I read Phils "post":
Straightforward as it may have been, the demo was used to prove a point. Harrison wanted to show the crowd why having the Blu-ray storage format was so important. This simple Getaway scene in particular, was so huge in terms of its data (hundreds of MBs), that without the Blu-ray, building the environment wouldn't be possible. It's an advantage that the 50 Gigs (on a dual-layered BD-ROM) can bring to content developers -- the opportunity to build and stream bigger, more detailed worlds.
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I don't know what befuddles me more the blatant disregard for technical details or the fact that IGN just sucked it up like Consumer 'ho's, oh wait the are . . .

A single scene cannot be "streamed from Blu-Ray" the textures have to be pre-read into memory and then rendered, so by showing a single location it's got zero to do with Blu-Ray, it just doesn't work like that!
 
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GavinMannion said:
Yeah it looks fantastic there is no doubting that but until it is a game of some sort the graphics mean nothing. The graphics are the cherries, if they take all the power and leave nothing for AI the game is ****. It needs both.
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I understand, but how does this differ from any other preview / trailer for any other console?

I'm not trying to be sarcastic or anything, just asking.

If I show you pics of Halo 3 from 2005, are you going to doubt any video or trailer that MS is showing of that game, cause they already had pics about it in 2005?
 
I`m not very impressed , building ect are easy to make look real . I will only be blown away if the people and trees ect look good.
And those people SUCK ! they are all blobbly and distorted..

Also there has been real-life game comparisons for crysis , before and looking at the game now it's not even close , ahhaha so i think those will also lose all it's splendour.
 
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I`m not very impressed , building ect are easy to make look real . I will only be blown away if the people and trees ect look good.
And those people SUCK ! they are all blobbly and distorted..
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Then go watch a trailer of Gran Turismo HD. Oh wait, it might not be for the PS3...

;)
 
Retro said:
If I show you pics of Halo 3 from 2005, are you going to doubt any video or trailer that MS is showing of that game, cause they already had pics about it in 2005?
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Straight pictures are fine, the same picture shown 2 years later. Not good ;)

I agree that all trailers should be taken with a pinch of salt but what got me about these pictures is that they where like that 2 years ago and then released again recently to show how good it looks.

Maybe if they release a video it would be something different... How can a game that is being used to show how powerful a system is not progress in 2 years?
 
Generally, yes, call me a sceptic, but I doubt any footage I see of any game until I see it for myself. I'm less sceptical if the footage all corroborates as it does for Halo. The screenies, the movies and the shaky cams all look the same at this point.

It didn't for Gears funnily enough. i've got gameplay clips of Gears from '05 which are not great. When I saw "mad world" as much as I wanted to, I didn't "believe" it until I saw it in the flesh running in front of me, and that's a good case in point. Another one - Mass Effect worries me, there's the early shots which are mediocre, the latest screenies are great, but the latest trailer is not good at all. So I wait to see with my lil blu eye's.

You don't start games with beautiful graphics like that 2 years prior to release, let alone before hardware is even final, which is why I'm even more sceptical about shots like these.
 
Tenshi_rdk said:
gran turismo was already canned for ps3 .
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Are you serious? I read somewhere that you can download the demo from the PSN?

Doobiwan, I get what you're saying. Then edit the post and say that. But crossing out everything and saying it's bull**** now that you find out it's over 2 years old, is just stupid...
 
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