Forza dev: You can't talk power unless you're informed

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Totally fair point. So that goes equally for MS guys who have no clue about what's under PS4's hood other than what the rest of us know ( I haven't seen any Sony people trying to comment extensively on PS4 vs Xb one power, but same would apply to them). 3rd party devs who are developing for both platforms are the only equally informed source of commentary on power. But they may not be "super" informed either, not to the extent of 1st party devs.

So in essence no one is qualified to talk about power in a comparitive sense.

However people who know stuff about how computer hardware works are qualified to talk about whether 68Gb/s on 8GB + 214Gb/s on 32MB > 176Gb/s on 8GB, or whether 12CUwith a 6% imprtovement = a 72% improvement over all or, as maths and logic tell you, merely a 6% improvement over all.

So people can talk about misrepresentation of specs to talk up a system even if the raw power specs aren't known. And according to some people what some people at MS have been doing is misrepresenting the meaning or interpretation of certain specs or combinations of specs. and in at least one case completely lying (whether deliberate or from having old information they don;t know is out dated) about a spec of the opposing platform. That sort of shenanigans can be rightly criticised on the internets even by people who don;t know all the fine details of console specs.