Sony's Trailers Are Graphics Whores

We get it, Sony, the Playstation 3 is the most powerful of the three current-gen home consoles. You don't have to flaunt it over and over to make yourself feel better for being in last place in sales this generation. You seem to be treating this as a beauty pageant, and you're certainly not in the running for Miss Congeniality with these repeated boasts.

I'm referring, of course, to the recent trend of all of the PS3's exclusive AAA titles featuring trailers of all in-game footage. This would be fine, in fact commendable, if not for the fact that they have to tell us, heavily implying that other trailers rely on CGI cutscenes (they mostly do). The latest offender is this one for Sucker Punch's Infamous. It may be all in-game footage, but I'm pretty sure all that excessive blur and reverse time were added in post-production (the slow-down may very well be part of the game):

Others on the docket include God of War III and Uncharted 2, both of which look like intro cutscenes, but we're guaranteed they are at least in-engine of not direct gameplay:

You know what would help convince us this was in-game footage? A HUD. Some sort of graphical elements to convey "this is what's happening". You know your games have these. At least the occassional your-character-got-shot-so-now-the-screen-flashes-white-and-desaturates that every action game does nowadays. Showing what could very understandbly be rendered footage and telling us it's all in-game isn't as convincing as it used to be (remember what happened with Killzone 2?). There's no shame in third place these days. Nintendo was third last generation and look at them now.

I love you, Sony, just stop being so cocky.

http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/61fps/archive/2009/03/13/sony-s-trailers-are-graphics-whores.aspx

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THIS issue has been BROUGHT up several times before......but this is the FIRST time I have ehard someone say "its not SONY misleading us but them being cocky!"

So do you feel this is a sign of SONY's cockiness....or its still an attempt to mislead us (even tho the GOW3 n uncharted 2 trailers were in-game apprently)

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lol, they just need a 50-100 dollar price cut

so they give you gameplay and you call them cocky !!!

would you like it better if it was CGI and 100% lie ??

That is seriously stupid...

If this person knows anything about inFamous, he will know that it is without a doubt ingame footage.

And we also know that both the Uncharted 2 and God of War III trailers are in engine and not in game.

@rainbird

it is misinformed people like these that pull Ps3 down

its quite unfortunate actually!

And a year ago people were whining that all we were getting was CGI.

just a pitiful attempt at bashing Sony

"We get it, Sony, the Playstation 3 is the most powerful of the three current-gen home consoles. You don't have to flaunt it over and over to make yourself feel better for being in last place in sales this generation."

That statement is absolutely absurd. Sony doesn't release trailers to make themselves 'feel better' about themsleves. Sony is a massive multimedia corporation intent on making strong business, not an attention seeking emo.

Sony is showcasing the strong graphics in their first party titles because it helps distinguish them from the competition, and it's a selling point for consumers.

they complained why MS and Sony show CG trailers , and now they complain cause they show in game Graphics trailers? , whats a trailer should be like then ? grannies wiggling the wii mote?

he doesn't believe in the cell
we have to show him the errors of his ways