Ratchet and Clank

Just saw an amazing vid on Ratchet and Clank, can\'t remember where it came from, maybe one of the freebies from Gamespot.com.

Beautiful Platformer, said to only use 50% of Ps2\'s ultimate power.  The game is remarkable, you can see for "miles" in the distance w/o the ever-popular haze.

Is it november yet?  I\'m ready for a k.a. platformer!

Omigosh!! They\'re still using the 50% power marketing trick??

Bah!

What "marketing trick"?

It seems every beautiful looking PS2 game is said to use 50%.

This would be the second game that is said to be using a specific amount of performance which could be considered a valid estimate - first being Gran Turismo 3 which is indeed only using around 25% of said performance.

Also, the quote is slighty wrong - as there\'s no such thing as a game only using x % of performance. Games usually use up full 100% performance, but the question is "how efficiant is it running"? You can have as much as 1000 polygons per second and you\'d be still able to max out the system to a full 100%. No doubt, this would be very unefficiant, as you could program your code differently and have the same 1000 polygons using much much less performance.

We are talking about Rachet and Clanks general performance.Not just polygon wise.

Unicron! you don\'t need to point that out. It should have been clear that the polygons was just an example to why the above statement is not quite accurate. If there\'s anything that\'s at 50%, it\'s efficiancy of the program and not the performance.