You're right. It's almost certain that the actual game will have a higher level of detail then the two year old tech demo.

"Quantic Dream highlighted, that the technology demo is just a sample of things achievable in a limited amount of time, and that during the making of the prototype, they still were in the middle of research and development efforts."

That was one awesome tech demo.

I'm not sure I fully understand what you're saying.

The devs of the demo are Quantic Dream, have been working Heavy Rain for the past 2 years.

Lips and mouth was to flat inside. Anyway, so many wrongs about it and still soo good! the future will be scarry!

I'm of the opinion that more graphical capabilities shouldn't necessarily be used for attempted photo-realism.

People's faces, mouths especially when talking, never look right anyway.

I still want to see stylized graphics in most of my games, not have them all look "real."  Games should have a style.  Valkyrie Chronicles really impresses me, for instance.  CoD, not so much...

Well it can and cant happen. It depends on the people creating the game. Have you ever seen a movie that was just unbelievable and you couldnt connect to it at all? While other movies you loved and connected to it the most?

The real question is whether you liked your cartoon childhood movies more than your real life movies as a teenager. Which do you remember? Which would you prefer? Nintendo is old school remebering the younger times, normally but not always associated with the better simpler times. While PS360 is focused on the here and now wanting it all demand associated thinking.

The choice is between reality or what could or should be.

It is a philosophical question for us all to answer individually, what is more important for me, as a gamer, a brother/sister, friend, mother/father, American, European, Japanese, or just as a human what really matters the most?

We've been in the uncanny valley for a while already, and will continue to be for a long time.

It doesn't have to apply to every game, though. Some developers have gotten around it, while others have fallen into the trap. I think the most important part to it -- more important by far than the character models themselves -- is the quality of facial animation. Back on the PS2, for instance: God of War 2, otherwise a graphical powerhouse, had atrocious facial animation. Look at Kratos' wife 7 minutes into this video:

She looks like a corpse whose face is being grotesquely stretched around by some invisible puppeteer. This is textbook uncanny valley, and it didn't take near-photorealistic character models for it to happen. On the other hand, here's a scene from FF7: Crisis Core on the PSP, with similar-quality character models but much better facial animation. The creepiness completely disappears.

The uncanny valley is going to remain a potential problem for as long as CG animation is done using the methods we've got today. But it's always going to be avoidable by dev teams with the talent and willpower to do it.

It's funny, the issue of the Uncanny Valley is most acute right now in motion capture--becuase they can get movement so close to real human movement, the Uncanny Valley is the biggest problem there in a way that it's only beginning to touch in video games.

A good example is Beowolf. The eyes are all wrong there. As is tongue movement. They're able to get really close to human expression, but are enough off it freaks most people out. I saw a whole symposium with Robert Zemeckis about MoCap. The things they're trying to do to get eyes right is astounding, but it still isn't quite there. Still, they were much more usccessful with Beowolf than with, say, The Polar Express. MoCap is at a place where they're almost over the Uncanny Valley.

Video games, however, aren't. Considering movement in 3-D space is only an issue in creating a computer animated or MoCap movie, not in consumng such a thing, whereas in video games it has to be done to, you know, play the game, the Uncanny Valley is a huge issue in games, and nearly everything this generation is mired in it. It's like the video of the first 13 minutes of MGS4--it looks breathtaking and real until you see the soldiers faces. Then they're just slightly...off. Or the wa Nico moves in GTAIV. Again, just...off. That video for Heavy Rain is the perfect example. She looks awful. Like 800 times worse than if she didn't look as likelike as she did. Ugh.