Comment Enough is enough... (Score 1) 217
Unlike any videogame console released before it, the PS 2 will have the power to create realistic imaginings of breathtaking clarity. Million-dollar computers -- in l999! -- have only fractionally more power than the Play Station 2, which will challenge our ideas about simulation by making it look at least as real as anything else seen on a television screen.
The PS2, designed to connect to the Net, is a window into a larger universe. It could easily simulate a Furby or Mindstorms, and it creates as well a million other interesting forms, if only for the eyes and ears. In fact, says Pesce, the PS2 could well be seen as a spaceship for scouring the universe of ideas.
These types of statements are exasperating. The PS2 isn't the second coming, people. The hardware is only as good as the software written for it, and the hardware itself isn't much more powerful than (if even as powerful as) current PCs and the other next-generation consoles. Anyone who thinks the PS2 is going to change the world, gaming or otherwise, in one fell swoop hasn't paid any attention to the evolution of games for the past twenty-five years.
The PS2, designed to connect to the Net, is a window into a larger universe. It could easily simulate a Furby or Mindstorms, and it creates as well a million other interesting forms, if only for the eyes and ears. In fact, says Pesce, the PS2 could well be seen as a spaceship for scouring the universe of ideas.
These types of statements are exasperating. The PS2 isn't the second coming, people. The hardware is only as good as the software written for it, and the hardware itself isn't much more powerful than (if even as powerful as) current PCs and the other next-generation consoles. Anyone who thinks the PS2 is going to change the world, gaming or otherwise, in one fell swoop hasn't paid any attention to the evolution of games for the past twenty-five years.
