ddkawaii said:
Why do people keep "mislabelling" shots that are obviously for current-gen consoles and posting tme as next-gen shots?
Between the crazy expectations people had for next-gen (FF:TSW quality graphics at 60fps for less than $300US), Microsoft's botched PR machine (MTV, Perfect Dark, letting people run wild with pricing expectations that equate to giving away hardware), Sony uping the ante with their E3 showing, 360 pricing, and the steady diet of mislabelled screenshots we're getting....
With all this confusion and misinformation how can the moderate to hardcore game fan be anything but slightly to greatly dissapointed and how can the casual be anything but confused?
Maybe it's just me, does anyone else feel this way?
Frankly, I keep thinking that none of this really matters. The console is still three months away, and if you have a misgiving or bad impression now, it really doesn't have to be corrected until around launch time. If everyone sees an NBA game at that point that is definitely next-gen, then the fact that three months ago you were saying "Xbox 1.5" really doesn't matter.
I really don't think a botched PR campaign on MTV that happened seven months before launch is going to negatively affect the console in any way. Why? Assuming games actually look decent at that point, no one is going to care that Perfect Dark 0 looked like shit seven months ago. Did anyone not buy Halo because at a previous E3 it didn't look so hot?
The time to be disappointed is at launch, not now, and not based on the MTV presentation, or the fact that these screens were mislabelled, and some people were confused. If you think about it, we really haven't seen many next gen screens, and it's still kind of unclear what to expect.
...So anyways, now I sound like a huge Xbox fanboy, and this isn't specifically directed at the quote above, but I think it's a little early to be predicting failure and shaking your heads with dissapointment.
