You see,
NoMoreTrolls..... it has already started
You are not tired, because of "nonsense". You are tired and pissed off, because your XBone is weaker than the PS4.
There is no other reason. Just let it go, finally!
They're not talking about the GPU-only!
Several devs and mags said: "Around 50%
faster".
The GPU + the better architecture, more RAM, better RAM, etc. = around 50% faster
(as already mentioned: more CU's more ROPs, more more more)
Exactly!
lol!
Dammit! Eh, I already wrote off Klocker as a definite candidate for that bullshit. Other than the odd thread, I only really started lurking in January, but it didn't take long for me to see a trend in his posts.
Klocker, it's cool to like the Xbox One, and I understand that you may feel that it's getting unnecessarily shit on by the majority of posters here on GAF. I'll let you in on a secret, though: many posters on these forums came by their newly found bias against Microsoft honestly. If you don't believe me, try and find some 2005-2006 threads regarding Sony. Sony was everybody's golden boy, coming off of the PS2--the gaming machine of choice for most gamers at the time. When Sony announced the PS3, "infinite power of the Cell," etc., etc. people were thinking "Holy hell MS is screwed! The 360 is going to fail!" People operated under the assumption that Sony had to be the best this time around because of current performance.
Then, when Sony started to announce more info ("Five hundred ninety nine U.S. dollars!") and Krazy Ken Kutaragi started to absolutely fuck the dog with awful PR blurbs, combined with Phil Harrison hyperbole, the common opinion changed. Sony were rubes, out of touch with the hardcore gamer. They had focused on multimedia for their games console, resulting in a box that was more expensive and effectively harder to develop for, making the games suffer. (Holy shit, that sounds oddly familiar! I wonder what's happened recently that sounds sort of like this...)
I would say that the general consensus on this forum (not making GAF a hivemind, mind you--it is full of unique posters. I am merely stating the seeming majority opinion) was quite pro-MS leading up to this year. People were beginning to warm to Sony because of the shifts in their business strategy and message since 2007-2008, but for the most part the 360 was more beloved by many. It was only when the rumors about Microsoft DRM policies came around that some began to worry. And even then, many still predicted the Xbox One to be hands down the more attractive system, in price, power, and featureset ("Sony can't afford to keep up with Microsoft" was a decently common and damned reasonable-sounding opinion). Most couldn't believe that Microsoft could go wrong after they did so much right this gen. This was the core premise of the "Sony too" posts, which were, once again, somewhat reasonable (at the beginning) when considering MS's lack of blunders compared to Sony this gen. It wasn't necessarily a bad assumption that Sony would follow MS into anti-consumer hell, because Sony themselves created a very anti-consumer console (from a wallet standpoint, at least) just a few years earlier.
The real shift in popular sentiment came with the initial Xbox One reveal. This was truly a turning point for forum partiality (and even public gamer bias) across the entire internet (MisterXMedia's blog notwithstanding). Things like #dealwithit, combined with the insulting PR that consisted almost entirely of nebulous buzzwords like "cloud," "five billion transistors," and the message that Microsoft did not trust its consumers to not be thieves... All of these things culminated in many gamers rejecting Microsoft's message.
I'm not sure what's so hard to understand about why Microsoft seems to be many people's whipping boy. They arguably flew too close to the sun. People who say things like "SonyGAF" never seem to understand that MS has earned this skepticism. Klocker, claiming that being in the minority confirms your bias can only come from some sort of cognitive dissonance. You're in the minority because you have some very strong loyalty to a brand of video games consoles. Not because you put any kind of logical thought into your preconceived notions. Neutral parties have, by and large, jumped ship to the clearly more consumer friendly PS4 (if they're going single-console). The hipster notion of the minority being right is often counter to the truth. I hope you have a breathing tube, I'd hate for you to get sand in your lungs.
I guess that expecting any kind of reasonable response from you is futile, though. Takes a lot more effort to back up your viewpoints than to make drive-by troll posts.
