Best thing about Digital Foundry is it keeps devs on notice. Lazy ports will be found out thanks to there analysis.
As for this game? I dont know who to believe. DF normally are very trustworthy with there tech reviews however no one is perfect.

you can be as sorry as you like and DF can be the best pixel counters on youtube, but that still doesn't change the fact that a video which spends minutes zoomed to 400% on a still image of a game to show a difference between X1X and PS4P is important to a niche group (pixel counters) of a niche group ("core gamers") of a relatively less niche group (gamers) is why their sites rank and sub count is as it is, to gamers you know where their site lays in popularity? It's over 100k subs less than ReviewtechUSA let that sink in for a few minutes before going back to the "but I think they're important" as a site/group please.

Let's just keep at one dimension, use the most favourable numbers

Seems like DF made a mistake (that they admitted) of not noticing the game wasn't fully 1080p. But the drop in FPS and res hitting 1080 is true and admitted by dev.

And looking at the game it is another situation of not properly developed game since the graphs are quite simple and wouldn't justify X1X having any issue to do 4k60fps much less dropping to 45 or less on even 1080p sections.

Difference is ReviewtechUSA is anything BUT respected. So you're honestly discussing DF's 'importance' on a worldwide scale in comparison with normal news outlets?! Can you please remind me what your initial point was?!

My initial point was to someone else, if you felt the urge to jump in with "but this 500k subs are more respected than his 650k subs" rubbish go read back for yourself, I didn't invite you to jump in nor am I going to go and re-write my posts for you, the tl:dr is that digital foundry isn't a major news site by any metrics.

But yeah I'm done talking about this, the dev makes one game and they considered suing a small youtube channel for cash for it, so yeah I'm grand with ignoring the dev there is plenty of them out there who are happy to make their cash from their products.

Other tech sites also analysed the same patch and they had different results, so in this case DF was 100% wrong, no discussions about it

Indeed :)


Anyway all this begs the question, what's the benefit of going to 81% (or 90%) of 4K if even DF didn't notice the difference after all those years staring at pixels on screens.

What Barkley said. Hopefully this is a lesson to Digital Foundry who have pretty much become the standard for technical analysis of games; it is their responsibility to show great due diligence when reporting on these games, as they really can influence perceptions and sales.

I hope now that they've pulled it both sides drop the issue, as I'm pretty sure most people who care about this sort of thing have since learned of the error. If this has hurt anyone at this point, it's likely the trust viewers have in Digital Foundry.

I still love the channel though, and I imagine going forward they'll be even more prudent about avoiding editorializing in favor of accurate technical analysis.

I don't see a problem with the bolded. Not familiar with what goes on on reddit.