To me the meta is perfect DJ Khalid famous for almost nothing(he's barely the evolved form of a Pitbull), "winning" a console war because the machine you like "won" a performance stress test which amounts to pretty much nothing. There is value in knowing which machine runs a game better, but the degree some of these nuts go to to have a new notch on their stupid belts is pretty pathetic, sometimes it's a mere 1% of the time a drop in FPS occurs, who CARES. In this world of patches, performance is regularly patched. Many people that participate in those threads of say a sports game and they never will ever play said sports game, it DOES NOT MATTER that the game PERFORMS BETTER on that plastic box you love, if you're NEVER GOING TO EXPERIENCE IT YOURSELF.
Nothing will fix these broken obsessive people, they're sick and they don't care even though they probably know it.
Console warring is the most pathetic thing you can take part in on a gaming board, go play a fucking game instead, if you're a gamer, or maybe you're not a gamer anymore, perhaps now you're just some zombie for a corporation that thinks if they type enough bullshit about company Y or Z they'll somehow care about you, sorry to break it to you... they don't and never will, you're screaming at the moon for shinning(or not shining).
The "win" from those threads is almost as stupid as being happy your city is SUNNY for a whatever "special" day and the city that wasn't SUNNY is some how the worse place ever.
TL;CR(Too long;Can't read): Performance tests are great to know which machine to avoid a game on in the rare case(in this new gen) that a game is actually unplayable. The way patches are frequently done there is usually a solution around the corner if one has horrendous performance. There's no "Winning" or "losing" it's more like "wait for a patch".