Didn't say they were new games. But the MGS collection, like ZOE HD, is Kojima's new multiplatform FOX engine. And you are missing a few of the weather effects, some of the lighting, and so on that were in the original. They've replaced a few of the effects with static lighting - and this takes time, and it takes effort. Obviously it's a much better piece of work than the Capcom "HD" ports, but it's essentially the same thing. A new engine with the original assets, some of the effects missing, with the viewport set to higher resolution.
Splinter Cell and the Ubisoft re-releases (except Rayman) was even worse - this was the original xbox/console version with higher resolution and another anti-aliasing filter. Even IGN saw that this wasn't a good version.
Bluepoint, who made the ICO collection, used a different approach on their games. And they could do that, because they're simulating the function calls running on a real ps2 on the cell processor. That's the problem, see? The ps2 memory still is too fast to actually run it on a traditional gpu/cpu system innately without modification.
If they made it into a multiplatform title, they would need to remake pretty much all of the layers, the horizon effect would have to be created all over again, the shaders for the colossi would look different, would overlap on Wander. The animation would be different, etc., etc.
But specially for that game, like with the Okami collection, it makes perfect sense to create an actual remake, right? It's not exactly expensive compared to creating a new game either - the Bluepoint folks commented on that early on, how cheap and quickly they actually could do a conversion.
But to do that for 100s of ps2 games? The Xenosaga games, for example? They'd sell 100 copies the first week, that sort of thing. Wouldn't pay off.
So then it would make sense to use the emulation approach, that's my point. And I don't get why none of you guys who are supposed to represent us can at least accept that this might be a good idea? And that there are worse ways to promote the playstation brand than flooding the psn with digital versions of the ps2 games. Specially when the emulation is that good.
I mean, I visited a Gamestop a while ago. They had newly printed DMC games on their shelf - do you know why? It's because the hd collections were traded in and people specifically asked for the original ps2 version. It's just a completely obvious thing that having those games in a better version on the psn would promote it.
But Sony won't do that, because "Sony" collectively have decided on beforehand that they want to sell "ps3 games" - and "re-encodes" -- "new games" -- instead of the "old games".
Which then has morphed to "we want to only sell multiplatform games, to get free advertisement. But there were other options here, see.
Alot of that hardware (plus 2 usb ports and the memory card reader) is what they took out making the slim to make room for more airflow, AND cut costs.....
