PES Chronicles

Another week and still no PES2008 demo for the PS3. Sony received a copy of a demo three weeks ago now, and I am starting to feel paranoid about why it has not appeared. Given the PS3’s ongoing growing pains, you would think that Sony would break their necks to publish a demo of the first PES game for its console. So what could be the reason(s) why it has been withheld?

The most likely reason is the quality of the demo. Reports about PS3 versions of the game from the time state that the game is bedevilled with slowdown and other random bugs. The 360 demo, although it had minor bugs, did not have slowdown (or if it did, I have not seen any reports about it).

The nightmare scenario for me as a PS3-owner, and for Sony as the PS3’s owner, is that the PS3 version could appear in the week of October 26th with slowdown. Three weeks is a very brief time to resolve issues like that and get the game published. It’s most likely that the PS3 demo, wherever it is and whatever it contains, is a representation of the final build we are going to get.

Should that happen (and I sincerely hope it does not), the PS3 will receive a justified kicking from a community whose forbearance has already been severely tested; it will also receive a gleeful, unrestrained kicking from the wider gaming community – and it will be justified in both cases.

But this is probably just random, paranoid talk born of frustration and impatience. Isn’t it?

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