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Originally Posted by Salvor.Hardin
My memory must be failing me. I'd love to see all of those accompanied with a link to his corresponding post. Because I don't recall him ever going into that much detail.
Are you
sure he rumored
all of those before they were known?
He literally never went into that kind of overall detail. A lot of those things nib pointed out have very little to do with anything cboat warned people about, but is simply the common growing pains that exist with any brand new machine on the market. It's quite baffling that nib would compile a list of issues, most of which contains things that cboat has either never told people about, or never went into such detail on, and somehow attempt to use that list to validate him by basically saying, "Look at all these issues, cboat was right about every single one. He was spot on." It's simply not true, and it borders on fantasy to pretend as if cboat gave us all of this info. He didn't. All that list amounts to is that a new console with a new os is a major undertaking, and so there's going to be issues early on that need working out. If this is the very loose standard being used to judge his validity, then cboat will never be wrong. It would be impossible for him to ever be wrong.
Simply put, cboat's agenda seemed to largely be to scare people off from getting an Xbox One. His modus operandi, to me, and obviously to others, has always come off as focused on somehow damaging the Xbox One, and not on simply providing a good intentioned public service. In fact, among the most clear this guy has ever been to my knowledge about the Xbox One is that snap was broken, and that it may be fixed in time for launch. With statements like that, if it's broken at launch or having some issues at launch, then he was right all along. And if it's working at launch and not causing any major problems, then he's still right and they fixed it in time, but is it really such a big revelation that at some point it was probably causing trouble as they were still working on an incomplete system OS and UI? The primary thing that I give him a break about is the yield related issues, simply because I heard the same from someone I trust a great deal, and whom I feel is very reliable on the matter, but I also said at the time that they were no longer quite as serious as people were making them sound. They had gotten past the worst of it. But no matter how you toss the dice, there has been no ass storm, or whatever we want to call it. The drum beat of disaster leading up to the Xbox One's launch that had cboat and others saying how crazy and chaotic things were internally has, to this point, looked like a pin drop in a crowded stadium.
The most controversial or damaging thing in all of this has been the resolution differences in games. And how big of a surprise is it that the PS4 is the more capable system at 1080p? Is that what we've been building towards? The big "ass storm" is that the Xbox One is weaker than the PS4, and that it would lead to some games being 1080p on the PS4 but at a lower resolution on the Xbox One, even as low as 720p. Literally everything else that we know about this system has been all the types of things you expect to hear with the launch of a new system. They'll release system updates to fix bugs, they'll release updates to improve or implement new features and to improve performance, and at some point down the line, developers will get better at making games for the hardware.