I admit to a bit of an anti-Sony bias. I love my PSP, and it’s my favorite handheld, but the PS2, despite having a library of stunning games, is a crappy piece of unreliable garbage. But that’s not the point. The point is that the press response to E3 has been unanimously to brand Sony the “winner,” and act like what they showed was “amazing” in some respect. While the Unreal Engine 3 demo was spectacular, the thing that gets my goat is that basically, Sony is lying.

There’s no way that the Killzone demo was “real-time,” despite what Sony’s rep said. No way at all. Similarly, almost all the other video they showed was prerendered “target” videos – the kind of thing that a developer puts together to show what they think a game will look like with the specs of the hardware, but it’s not actually representative of what can be done, because you’ve got to account for a lot of other processing, and how you have to direct the player in-game, etc. Most of those videos are there to try to capture the kind of emotional response that the developer wants to evoke, and a general visual “target” – but it’s not *real*.

And for Sony to say it was, they’re liars. And for the press to fall for this bullshit *AGAIN* after the PS2… well, they’re just fucking stupid.