Pixels and numbers don't really relate to better graphics for me. I just dont notice it. I'm not surprised by the poll results though, people have made such a big fuss over resolution but its hardly noticable in screenshots or in motion. Most people are not gaming on a 50+ tv to notice anyways.

Last gen, the difference in textures, shadows, lighting etc was the real kicker. For me the difference is night and day bewteen most 360 games and ps3 games.

Beats me, I don't know or care about CoD.  You'll have to fight your own battles.

CGI stop
Those people simply don't want to understand.
You can do this for years and they won't accept hard facts.

All they counter with is "My grandma has seen this and that and told me this"

Its the same with those people seeing someone buying a X1 and saying the tides are shifting.

Early in every consoles life, all engines are unoptimized.  None of these devs are familiar with targeting this level of hardware (because they've all been tailoring their games with last gen in mind, ergo, starting point is 16x less RAM, etc...).  Even most PC devs aren't really up to speed on properly working with 8 ACE's, since only AMD's Volcanic Island GPU's (R9 290+) have that amount.  It's not really financially intelligent to build your game around the feature set of a GPU that a very small percentage of the population has.  So yeah, every gen this happens.  First couple years devs refine their shit, middle years and on is where everything gets really ironed out.

At the same time, devs also need to tailor their engines to the esram efficiently.  So, the X1 should improve over time as well, the PS4 just has a good chunk more resources to pull from.

The PS3 was built strong but was tough for devs to develop on yielding second rate ports. Their exclusives told the story. This gen the perfomrance beating wont just be on an exclusive end but also on a multiplat end.

I've read a few faceoffs and, actually, you're right, I forgot about some compromises games usually do on XOne even when lowering res. Still, results depend a lot on the game. While in most cases XOne ports run with lower shadow resolutions and some absent or lower end post-processing, I've actually not read yet any faceoff in which texture resolution is lower on XOne when compared to PS4. There are cases where the XOne version actually has better framerates, though, so it highly depends on the game. Anyway, it's still not noticeable to the extent that was present last-gen, since texture/post-processing/shadow resolution settings were so low that any drop to these was a lot more perceptible than it is this gen. I do get your point, though.

Hmmmm, maybe I need to be more obvious...

I don't recall this incident, what happened?

It is a MASSIVELY bigger difference. Not to mention the PS3 and 360 traded blows depending on the game (Although PS3 exclusives sh!t all over every other game on either system.)

Ah that. My memory doesn't stretch back that far haha. 

I guess I figured it was so universally known that Bayo on PS3 was an atrocious port that people would know I was being silly.