Tulipanzo
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The connection here being strawmen you made up.Funny how likes didn’t matter until recently, what was the catalyst I wonder...? Same as power, that used to be the be all end all...
There’s a connection here I’m just not seeing it...?
Stats mattered, after all the Game Awards figures were plenty discussed back in December, but right now MS has generated less enthusiasm than their direct competitor. That's worth discussing.
Here's a tangentially related aside.
The discussion of "power" highlights a major failure of forums, and how they can be swayed by marketing.
The reliable info we had before release was actually fairly accurate in spots: two similarly performing hardware setups, 36 vs >50 CUs, with a much better SSD on PS5.
The problem being the whole discussion shifted to be only about TFs, a useful but far from all-encompassing metric.
It got to the point were if you wanted to highlight a given platform's advantage or feature you had to reduce it to TF. It's indicative of how many people participated in discussions without knowing much at all of tech on both sides.
Advantages in running CUs faster (ie. the thing Cerny actually talked about) or discussions on costs couldn't survive, it had to be about the TF.
On the one hand, this was inevitable given how much people wanted to talk about next-gen, but on the other, we probably could have done better and kept speculation within reason