On Wednesday, I met with someone who told me that Sony setup a PS3 preview lounge in SOHO. After our meeting we headed over there to check out the new PS3 Sony Playstation console and see if the hype was true.
Upon arriving, it was an exclusive event. We needed an invite to get in, but around the corner some Sony dude was giving out free tickets to get in. So we got tickets and went up to the two pretty young ladies working the door, and they let us in like we were rock stars.
Inside were many PS3 stations with retro space age white half spheres to sit in. Many games were being demo-ed from racing to first person shooting to others. The graphics were astounding. Certainly the graphics horsepower had been increased and some of the action was much better. Seeing it all on widescreen HDTV certainly made the experience much more dramatic.
But…somehow it still just old news. Even though the graphics rendering was much better, the games were the same. Racing, first person shooting, fighting games – we’ve all been there before. I can’t help but wonder if a game had improved by just simply having more graphics horsepower, and honestly I can’t say that they had. They were still the same old stuff. When will we see the games themselves improve beyond the visuals…?