Kill yourself, I've never stated anything such; feel free to dig up a post of me even beginning to mention TR a game I've gone on record on TXB plenty of times and stated I wasn't impressed with it visually. I have stated however that the Xbox One and PS4 won't be more powerful than the latest PC during the same timeframe despite you and Seekar constantly going on about these consoles being a generation beyond what was available for PCs. Seekar always stated Durango/Orbis would be two generations beyond, you were not as stupid (but still pretty dumb) and stated one generation beyond. And when I explained why this was not going to happen; you were like "teh trendz!" And thus we got into a very very long argument about Xbox/Xbox 360 vs PC during their launch.
Yea you've been peddling this nonsense for a while now as well. Being able to render at a lower resolution and scale up has nothing to do with "naunced design". Simply put if developers decided to render at 720p to match the XBO version that "brute force" machine will still do better.
Throwing bandwidth into pixel is stupid...yet Turn10 aimed for 1080p/60. I guess they're dumb, I also guess Crytek is dumb for going for 1600x900. They should have just went for 1280x720p. Seriously you're so all over the place and utterly nonsensical lol.
First, there was never "secret sauce" it was quite literally something that Arthur Gies from Polygon made up and it spread like wild fire, from that point on any new information we got on the Xbox One was questioned as being the secret sauce; our very own Astro did his part to make sure that stupidity kept going; he "analyzed" vague patent after patent; random post after random post; tweet after tweet and threw forth many theories on that the secret sauce was; after absolutely none of his baseless guesses came to fruition he was like "herp derp, you guys have all been wrong, the entire system is the secret sauce!" Yea everyone else was wrong in their guideless search for secret sauce led by Astro, but not him. herp.
Second, 360 was never weaker than PS3; it always had the more powerful GPU which is why 98% of multiplatform games performed better on 360 even if the differences in visuals were minute. If PS4 ended up weaker than XBO then we'd just have a repeat of PS3/360 generation in which one group would be see "vast differences" in the two platforms while the other group dismissed it and said it's all about the gameplay much like is currently taking place.
Third, as for PS3 being twice the FLOPs of the 360 that's just nonsensical BS that Sony engaged in to one up MS's complete BS. During TheColony 360 reveal one of MS's engineers stated Xbox 360 had 1TFLOP of computing power; Sony didn't like that, so they used some PR math and came up with 2TFLOP for their machine. Neither console is/was anywhere near 1/2TFLOP respectively and come in around 240-250GFLOPs.
Fourth, I don't think anyone is dismissing XBO at all, people are dismissing astro's completely clueless statements on this magical scaler which he always brought up when it had no bearing in conversation. It was his clutch; you thought PS4 games would be higher resolution? Nope bro, it doesn't have the magical scaler; besides 14+4CUs and 4CU for audio! Don't forget Xbox One is 100% efficient PS4 is brute force derp!
Fifth, your second post quite literally sums up TXB circa 2005-2012; people justifying their purchase while vast majority couldn't see the difference. And regardless; the fact that there were differences was enough to incite 40page argument speaks volume. I mean we had a thread in which people said they couldn't see a difference between PC and 360 multiplatform games, and that the extra framerates don't matter; then those same people would turn around and go into PS3/360 comparison threads and talk about vast differences…Astro being one of them. All of it a bunch of mental gymnastics. Many people may not be able to see a difference (this is called an opinion astro, I suggest writing this down); but suggesting that because they can't see a difference therefore they're the same is factually incorrect. One runs at a higher resolution as well as having a better framerate thus they're different with one being "better" regardless of how small that difference is...much like last generation.
And to make this entire thing even more humorous Astro was one of the guys back on TXB betting up and down that Xbox would have more games running at 1080p because of the mgical display planes (scaler); but then is in this thread saying that resolution basically doesn't matter...but it mattered back before these consoles came out for him to place pointless wagers with other members. The hypocrisy and mental gymnastics is just mind numbing really.
