if i have to say it all. the reason why I prefer DF is because over the years I have seen the "top" consoles change .. once it was x360 .... then ps4 then xox etc etc there’d will always be those who complain and disappointed by the results(...)
The problem has never been whether one version is better, a lot better or slightly better, or zoom in 16x to see how much better it is.
The problem is how the data is presented, argued and dissected.
When analysis is done by imparcial actors, who do what they do by a pure love for the subject, which in this case is game technology, no narratives are created nor are they exploited.
The problem with DF has and always has been that they constantly show favor towards Xbox. For example if data was presented in pure numbers and side by side image comparison, there would be nothing that could be said.
But if during the 360/PS3 generation, DF constantly made a big deal of small differences, it become apparent how their strategy shifted with PS4/Xbox 1. Suddenly the differences didn’t matter all that much. With X1X and PS4 pro, differences became big again. Pre release, DF wouldn’t stop overrating the potential of Series X and underrating or downright spreading FUD about the PS5 and at the very least dismissing any sort of advantage the PS5 might have in its tech.
When you have a large body of work available, over the course of a decade, patterns shape themselves regardless of your best attempts at controlling the meaning behind them.
Fact is DF’s role should be to celebrate game technology and let us take a sneak peak under the hood, and help the audience make informed decisions if it’s a situation where a member might be undecided on whether to purchase one version over the other.
At the end of the day it comes down to the example of SSR in God of War being a limitation of the hardware, but SSR in Gears 5 is a beautiful rendering technique. See the difference in how the same data is presented with completely different meanings?
I also don’t give a fuck if these guys spend more time on one console over the other, and whether or not they had to clean the “dust off” from console A or B. Why are they sharing that information with us? Because they are amateurs.
It was their choice to bring to light their biases, not the audience.
