Title: RE: Sony using PC's at E3? (NOT PS3 hardware)
Post by: KDR_11k on May 13, 2006, 11:29:16 PM
One of their big exclusives alledgedly ran on an XCircle. Don't remember which one, though.
Title: RE: Sony using PC's at E3? (NOT PS3 hardware)
Post by: SixthAngel on May 13, 2006, 11:37:08 PM
This kind of stuff doesn't really surpise me and because of problems with the system itself that won't be worked out until too late I expect there to be few units at launch as well as high defect rates.
Title: RE: Sony using PC's at E3? (NOT PS3 hardware)
Post by: Pale on May 14, 2006, 12:51:29 AM
I don't think any of the Wii games were running on actual Wii hardware either even though the console seemed to be sitting out front. Whenever a freeze up happened, the reps would reboot them from something down on the floor. I dunno.
Title: RE: Sony using PC's at E3? (NOT PS3 hardware)
Post by: KDR_11k on May 14, 2006, 03:40:56 AM
Perhaps they were running on devkits or something else that simply didn't fit into the Wii case?
Title: RE:Sony using PC's at E3? (NOT PS3 hardware)
Post by: Bill Aurion on May 14, 2006, 08:09:05 AM
Quote Originally posted by: Pale I don't think any of the Wii games were running on actual Wii hardware either even though the console seemed to be sitting out front. Whenever a freeze up happened, the reps would reboot them from something down on the floor. I dunno.
I heard they actually did have games running on the actual hardware, but they were behind closed doors...
Title: RE: Sony using PC's at E3? (NOT PS3 hardware)
Post by: Ceric on May 14, 2006, 09:16:02 AM
I have to agree with the dev kit idea. Actual Wii's would need discs burned for them.
Title: RE: Sony using PC's at E3? (NOT PS3 hardware)
Post by: ThePerm on May 14, 2006, 09:32:24 AM
i doubt those were real wiis, i doubt even the hardware is final. Nintendo may be playing the ram card. Also, as far as the gfx chip goes?? I'm pretty sure it can do better than these x-box-esque gfx. must not be complete.
Title: RE:Sony using PC's at E3? (NOT PS3 hardware)
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on May 14, 2006, 11:47:10 AM
I'm sure Wii will stack up fine on Standard TVs against Xbox 360 and PS3, heck most of Nintendo's games came close to it and I'm sure they are tweaking them as time goes on, especially since they now have more room to work with when it comes to pricing!
Title: RE: Sony using PC's at E3? (NOT PS3 hardware)
Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on May 14, 2006, 02:18:33 PM
Mario Galaxy is ABSOLUTELY PHENOMENAL as Peter Moore would say. or not
Title: RE:Sony using PC's at E3? (NOT PS3 hardware)
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 14, 2006, 02:37:54 PM
Quote Originally posted by: Pale I don't think any of the Wii games were running on actual Wii hardware either even though the console seemed to be sitting out front. Whenever a freeze up happened, the reps would reboot them from something down on the floor. I dunno.
What they were actually running on looked like GameCubes, annd must have been the "souped-up" Gamecubes(Rev Dev kits) that have been mentioned b4.
Title: RE: Sony using PC's at E3? (NOT PS3 hardware)
Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on May 14, 2006, 02:41:08 PM
TIP EHT FO MOTTOB
Title: RE: Sony using PC's at E3? (NOT PS3 hardware)
Post by: BigJim on May 14, 2006, 08:44:56 PM
I don't know about this show, but many GameCube demos were running off computers behind curtains at E3 2001. No real surprises here.
Title: RE: Sony using PC's at E3? (NOT PS3 hardware)
Post by: Bloodworth on May 15, 2006, 07:16:29 AM
LOL, big deal. Sony didn't even try to hide it. They had glass cases full of devkits at every PS3 station. Of course neither piece of hardware is finished yet. Even some DS games in progress ran off of devkits instead of Flash ROMs.
Title: RE: Sony using PC's at E3? (NOT PS3 hardware)
Post by: jasonditz on May 15, 2006, 09:27:17 AM
It's not a huge deal, except for what Sony did with the PS2. They made unrealistic promises about the capabilities of the system, and a lot of the tech demos (which were again, running on development hardware) looked far better than anything we wound up seeing on the final console.
I don't think it's much of an issue here though: what I saw didn't make the PS3 look head and shoulders above the 360 to begin with.
