Muppet of a Man
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Well, can't blame people for being wary...
There's been a "feeling" lately of a general anti - Sony/ PS4 vibe, both on Forums and the media.
Evolution didn't help with the botched release of Driveclub, or Sony itself with the hiccups in the 2.0 patch, but it goes far beyond that.
Case in point, Driveclub was torn to shreds (mostly deserved when relating to online performances) but not even for its actual problems, but for "Lack of Soul". Thing is, Driveclub was almost the story of a predicted failure all year long, as it seemed that most media outlets had already writen it down as a failed "corridor" racer ... cf Giant Bomb.
OTOH IGN had a month long coverage of MCC. The whole frickin' month of October was all Halo, all the time (or so it felt).
Other exemple, Shareplay should have been celebrated, but as soon as a hiccup showed up (not even Sony's fault, it -had- to have a clause for Publishers to opt out), many apparently started to report it as a failed experiment.
Eurogamer's Digital Foundry has had a very interesting way of reporting, particularly lately. Halo's problems were mostly brushed over, while they really reported a LOT it seemed on the AC:U "parity". For GTA V, same, they seem to want absolutely to have both versions to be mostly the same "overall".
One of the most damning comparison was COD: AW. There's no two way around it, read the text, in between lines, and the PS4 version is clearly vastly better.
But read sumaries/ conclusions? Not that big of a difference according to them.
Still about Eurogamer: Where is the PES 2015 comparison? Far Cry 4 is a comparison PS4 / PC, no mention of the XB1. No mention of the Dragon Age: Inquisition tech stuff either.
Instead of that, and while they missed the lack of vegetation detail / quality of shadows/ lighting the first time around, let's make sure to run an update that emphasizes that, in spite of the PS4 version advantages in GTA V, everyone should know that there are some intersections in town that sometime drop a little more fps on PS4 than XB1. Nevermind that at some other points in the city the XB1 drops actually more (pointing out to a lack of optimization). The unmissable sub text: Tech differences -unlike in the PS360 era- aren't that big of a deal, even if "technically" they are actually bigger.
Current week?
LBP3 was demolished in some medias (before day 1 patch) for bugs that were (mostly) solved day 1, while MCC (which is also buggy, and still is) enjoyed a far better reception before it.
6.8 from IGN?
For them BF4 was 8.5. What about Sim City (2013), borderline unplayable at release? 7.
Long story short: Can't really shake the feeling that some media outlets (it's expected from Xbox fans) would like to take Sony down a notch this Holiday.
Not putting it out as fact. It's all about the feels.
I just think Richard Leadbetter wants a job at Microsoft. Remember that dude Luke Smith from 1up? Same deal for him. I think he actually landed a job at Bungie during X360's reign. Come to think of it, I think a couple of the guys landed jobs at MS from 1up. And then there was Shane "#1 Sony fanboy" Bettenhausen. He landed a job at Sony. I think only the Nintendo fanboys (Jeremy Parish?) didn't land jobs at Nintendo.