| AlkamistStar said: Another group of people downplaying what the Xbox 360 is capable of, jeez it never stops here. selnor finally brings out a thread in which he states FACTS...let's read that again..."FACTS"! Yet somehow it's downplayed. As for providing links...why? Go look it up. Matter of fact, there has been numerous threads on the homepage linking to the FACTS that selnor brought out in the OP. If only positive X360 threads stayed up for more than 5 minutes, maybe half of you looking for links, and post, etc would have read this already. |
In journalisitc terms, he committed the capital sin of not drawing a clear line between opinions, speculations, and documented facts. He's free to explain his opinions, which many will agree with. I myself agree with the overall sentiment of the piece: too much reliance on middleware has kept back the 360 a lot; thankfully, efforts such as AW and Reach will show much better the capabilities of the hardware.
Technical explanations and citations, though, can't be a mess of hearsay and half-understood jargon placed there to sort of support the opinion part only if nobody looks at them too closely, as they can be factually picked apart. And if -when called out on them- he refuses to amend the inaccuracies, then he's obviously asked for his sources to counter the ones disproving him.
I went and looked it up, actually. I quoted the literal quotes, I linked to the tech pieces. If you found in any of the other "FACT" ridden threads a link proving that Sweenay said that they never used the edram, or proving that its use to help AA and alpha blending is a new idea, granting "for free" 720p full screen 4xMSAA (as that's what Selnor basically said in the OP and some following posts), then please help Selnor and every reader and point us to it.
My point being: there's nothing wrong with not everyone being a tech expert. Nor there should be the need to back opinions up with half-assed numbers and specs just because it looks to an inexpert eye like it makes our e-penis bigger than someone else's. But if you bring out the tech-speak, then you must be able to handle it. Like a gun. Or at least admit what you can't handle and keep discussing in a very civil and clear way about opinions and speculations and those facts you can prove.
