Revolution Pic. Fake or Real?

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Photoshop experts. real or fake? Some guy on penny arcade found it and we have a little discussion going on there. I found quite a bit of info from that pic that makes lean towards real, but could be wrong.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=196693&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=775

starting from page 32.
 
It looks plausible enough, though I'm no photoshop expert. I'll say one thing though, the guy standing next to the screen looks a lot like George Harrison (VP of Nintendo).
 
If it's real, what's so special about it?
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Well, if its real then it shows a Revolution game as well as a possible system interface. Notice the buttons "Play" "Discuss" "High Score" "Review" "WiFi Connection" ect and near the top where it says "Offline". That seems to point to this being what you will see when you put a game disc into the system (high score, discuss and review being online community features that are ghosted out because the system was offline).
 
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If you go the link i posted you'll see all the info I found from the picture and a little bit of searching. The game shown is a NES game, but the big thing is its a ZAPPER/LIGHT GUN game. Which in turn proves that the rev will play Zapper games like duck hunt. It could also be the download service screen...but the fact that it says offline makes me think its not. Also If you see the play now button, there is the shape of the controller.
 
The blurring doesn't make sense to me. It's fuzzy rather than a smooth DOF blur (camera shake?), and the projection is crisp behind the head despite being at greater distance from the camera and hence prone to DOF blurring. It's crisp near the mouth getting fuzzier radiating from this point. As a guess the projection is made from a crisp mockup rotated about this text and overlaid. Don't think it's legit though.
 
Does the time say it's August 19, 2005, Friday at 2:24 in the afternoon? Well, August 19th is a Friday, though I'm not sure what event happened that day.
 
hupfinsgack said:
This is a fake...
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How do you know for sure? There's nothing that stands out at it being an obvious fake. And if it is, it's obviously done by someone who spent a terrible amount of time on it.

The original gumshoe was indeed an obscure zapper game on the NES. A not particulary obvious target to pick to base a fake on...
 
As I say, the trouble is the blurring. You've got a ghosted image overlaid in the projection. eg. The Nintendo logo top-right has feint duplicate up left from it, and the Revolution logo top-left has a feint duplicate down and left. But the text in the centre around the face is clear. I can't explain this. Unless perhaps the camera was twisted during the photo? But then the extremities of the photo should be even more 'blurred', such as the light switch. Hmmm, maybe, given the lack of detail in those areas to judge by.
 
I would say its a real projection, its just that the guy presenting isn't from Nintendo and this is a mockup.
 
From a couple of minutes worth of peeking and toying in PS, I say this is a real image of a man in front of the presentation seen here. The colour-cast seems consistent, as do the twisting motion blur and the geometry.
If this is the VP of Nintendo (you tell me), I'd say let the speculations flow (if you have nothing better to do in the mere hours before the Nintendo Press Conference.. :)

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It does look like George Harrison VP of Nintendo, very similar profile, hair ect:

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Still its a side on shot in the dark so its hard to be certain who it really is.
 
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