"They" actually did not claim Killzone 2 was recorded from PS3 hardware. It wasn't great what
did happen, but the history is different than the common legend.
We've traced this before in NeoGAF, but the "
It's definitely real" comes from a G4TV Geoff Keighley interview with Jack Tretton (before he was the big boss... I'm kind of not sure why they put him out there to talk other than to groom him for potential bigger things in the future. ) He was talking about Resistance and Keighley changes the subject but Jack kind of minces and talks more about Ted (as in Ted Price of Insomniac) before falling back into his corporate speech. (Tretton was either the head of Merchandising or Markering at that time, i don't remember which at the time. ) Now, was Tretton talking about ALL the game demos shown being real, or was he just spouting talking points he wasn't really cleared for? (Was Tretton in a position at that time to know about any SCE products being developed outside America age years away from a marketing campaign?) You can hear it either way (and be just as angry about the misinformation either way. )
Whatever Tretton said to G4 though, the actual game developers at Gurreilla told the press that same week that it was a representative trailer, "
it's basically a representation of the look and feel of the game we're trying to make." Other words from Guerrilla (i can't track down the link) further clarified that it was done with a CG studio, so not exactly calling it fake but still helping to make it known that it was not "definitely real" on PS3.
The official UK PlayStation.com website recently posted an interview with Guerilla Killzone PS3 designer, Jan-Bart Van Beek. It goes like... How do you feel about the reaction to the trailer that was shown yesterday?
www.ign.com
And yet, the debate raged on afterwards until the game finally showed itself. After, none of the clarity/cleanup efforts of the story survived. And from Sony's side, they never said anything until the next GDC and E3, when it became more obvious than ever that the PS3 unveiling was a wish in the clouds...