I understand where you are coming from and you do have lots of great insight when you are not irate (?), but just the same, I don't think there is such a situation as you describe. People make it an active decision to read this stuff and make their own decision as to what it is. it is not like this info is being posted as articles across every major technical site and forum as fact with no one saying anything otherwise. Then if you do go past the language barrier and, let's say overactive, personal exuberance, there is plenty of viability to things he points out. So it can and should be taken as just an alternate look at things other than taking it at face value.
Hell, where is the anger at all the "professional" journalism and integrity with the s***storm leveraged against MS since May? There is something more apropos to your WotW situation than this stuff is.
I would definitely agree that the bandwagon MS bashing is reminiscent of WotW. Kotaku can't post anything these days without a hundred nonsensical reactions. The Xbox fitness thing was the most recent. That feature is a big deal to a lot of people, and it's not just a revamp of Wii Fitness; P90X and Insanity are the real deal, and you get them free for a year. But somehow MS is price gouging, or it's worthless, or (my favorite coming from these internet heroes) "why don't you just go outside and work out". The Japanese launch date was particularly amusing. "Microsoft is just giving up in Japan." Then Sony announces the same release window, and somehow it's sensible.
As for the XB1 rumors, has no one seriously thought the entire mrxmedia thing through? I mean, once? Or are people so blind to what they want to hear? By "think it through", I mean this, and this should be the complete end of the story for all time and forever: Why in the world would Microsoft pay AMD $3 billion dollars and not be able to tout their hardware advantage? Who could possible force them to sign such an NDA? Faced with an impending console war, or even if (as stated) this was in response to the backlash from E3, Microsoft would
never let AMD dictate terms to them that would require them to keep their mouths shut about such an ENORMOUS power advantage.
NEVER. And certainly not because Valve asked them to. Microsoft would have said, "AMD, no. we will now give that $3billion to Nvidia, as well as preferential treatment from now on in Windows." AMD, as the second fiddle to Nvidia, would do anything and everything they could to keep Microsoft happy. How could this purported NDA gag order EVER have taken place? Why couldn't Microsoft at least say, "we're more powerful, we can't say exactly why yet, but you'll see on this date", and then circle that date in big green chalk on the calendar? And why, why, why, and how, how, how, could an NDA
POSSIBLY be extended without mutual agreement by both parties? And why would Microsoft
EVER agree to do so at this point in time?
This is why it's so aggravating. The entire premise, that Microsoft can't talk about their $3 billion purchase because the second tier player in the graphics card market is "strong arming" them, just does not hold up to basic logic. I don't even understand why people keep playing math games with power supplies, or drawing in MS Paint on chip diagrams (or in Puresoul's case, just redrawing the diagrams himself to suit his beliefs). How can you even get that far, when the entire basis of your argument is completely devoid of logic and sense?
Sorry to rant, and I'm trying to not point directly at anyone with this, but this whole discussion is just exhausting at this point. Someone will need to push my wheelchair to the pharmacist for me so I can pick up my Viagra prescription.