Was the PS3 footage real-time?

[Paco]

GamesIndustry.biz: One question on the lips of many people at the moment: how much of what we saw in the PlayStation 3 demos was actually running in real-time?

Phil Harrison: Everything in the demos was real-time.

And what about the game footage clips?

Not all of that - in fact, none of it was real-time because it was all running off video. If you make a presentation to two and a half thousand people, you're going to put some of it on video just to be on the safe side.

I've been asked this question a lot. The way we put those videos together, everything was done to specification. Everything was done to PS3 spec. Virtually everything used in-game assets; some things were rendered.

How representative of what we're actually going to be seeing in PS3 games were those videos?

I think very. I think depending on the game, different games took a different approach to their way of expressing what the games are like - but clearly, something like Motor Storm uses more cinematic, replay-like cameras than you would ever enjoy in-game. So that makes a big difference... But everything is done to spec.

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Is the Killzone sequence a fair example of what people can expect from realtime gameplay on PlayStation 3?
Jan-Bart: Yeah, it's basically a representation of the look and feel of the game we're trying to make.

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And just today during a G4 interview with the Sony VP Marketing Director he commented it was actual gameplay, and it's going to play exactly like that.

[Great Rumbler]

Yes, there's quite a bit of confusion as to whether Killzone 2 [and a lot of the other videos] were actually being rendered by a PS3 are merely CG.

[lazyfatbum]

So... we have the big console showdown and nobody brought their guns. PS3 and XBox atleast showed pre-rendered stuff of what is 'possible' but nothing concrete.

That wont stop the masses from thinking that's how the games will look though.

[Dark Jaguar]

At least they commensed in the entire real purpose of the show, mental control of the masses.

[A Black Falcon]

Yes, DJ, that's pretty much exactly the purpose of E3... style and flash. Substance can come later.

[A Black Falcon]

http://money.cnn.com/2005/05/26/commenta.../index.htm

smoke and mirrors, indeed... :)

[Smoke]

In a word, no.

[A Black Falcon]

And, as that article says, about as likely to show up in actual PS3 games as stuff as good as that robot did in X-Box games. :)

[alien space marine]

I waisnt impressed that much, To be honnest.

Yah I do remeber alot of hype of the PS2 that never materialised, I even fed into it then.