Are people actually taking this seriously?
There are things about our system architecture not fully understood, and there are things about theirs as well, that bring the two systems into balance.
So I take it this guy knows the ins and outs of Sony's architecture as well?
...the performance delta between the two platforms is not as great as the raw numbers lead the average consumer to believe.
How about you actually elaborate instead of spewing nonsense like Microsoft has some of the greatest programmers "IN THE WORLD"? No one is going to take you seriously.
...do you really think we don’t know how to build a system optimized for maximizing graphics for programmers?
Developers don't seem to think so.
If there was really huge performance difference – it would be obvious.
In about 2 years, as it did with previous generations. It's very hard to work out which console is more "powerful" through launch games. Especially multiplatform games, where the Xbone version has to be pretty much identical to the PS4 one.