{"id":437,"date":"2008-03-02T12:12:04","date_gmt":"2008-03-02T11:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=437"},"modified":"2008-03-02T16:26:01","modified_gmt":"2008-03-02T15:26:01","slug":"gamers-will-literally-be-able-to-dive-into-the-realistic-world-seen-in-large-screen-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2008\/03\/02\/gamers-will-literally-be-able-to-dive-into-the-realistic-world-seen-in-large-screen-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Gamers will literally be able to dive into the realistic world seen in large screen movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been looking at the rhetoric surrounding console launches. This is, for real, from Sony&#8217;s 2005 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.us.playstation.com\/News\/PressReleases\/279\">press release announcing the Playstation 3<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gamers will <strong>literally be able to dive into the realistic world seen in large screen movies<\/strong> and experience the excitement in real-time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The same old drab way of selling a new console, of course, promising better graphics (joy!).  But spot the really wonderful mistake of using <em>literally<\/em> as a modifier for emphasis: The selling point is not that games will <em>feel <\/em>more like movies, but that <em>diving in<\/em> is not a metaphor at all! You will <strong> literally<\/strong> be jumping headlong into your television set. Wow! Can&#8217;t wait!<\/p>\n<p>PS. On the other hand, since we all so massively seem to agree that realistic 3d is not the way to go, I am beginning to hope that someone will actually stand up for 3d photo-realistic graphics. Any takers?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been looking at the rhetoric surrounding console launches. This is, for real, from Sony&#8217;s 2005 press release announcing the Playstation 3: Gamers will literally be able to dive into the realistic world seen in large screen movies and experience the excitement in real-time. The same old drab way of selling a new console, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2008\/03\/02\/gamers-will-literally-be-able-to-dive-into-the-realistic-world-seen-in-large-screen-movies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gamers will literally be able to dive into the realistic world seen in large screen movies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}