And that would be?

IMO people were upset mainly because:

- I highlighted with much evidence that the XBox 360 was an unreliable games console well before Microsoft admitted to this.

- I highlighted with much evidence that the PS3 is more powerful than the XBox 360, well before PS3 games started to look much better.

- I highlighted with much evidence Blu-Ray wasn't performing all that bad and was on track to win the format war against HD DVD, this long before HD DVD threw in the towel.

Such things, make fanboys go wild and some even hold more a grudge the more you are proven to be correct. Also there were also 2 MorphOS fanboys following me here to this website, I once stated in public their "god" (CEO of a company) at the time was an ass and can't be trusted. A lot of fanboys came to his defense, but he stopped paying his employees/contractors, letting them work for over a year promising to pay them afterwards. This of course never happened, I was proven right.

Some people are upset that I state the RSX holds more horsepower than the Xenos. Of course the RSX can perform far more operations per second in general, but that's not all that important without placing this in proper context. Important though is that the Xenos can do 96 vs the RSX can do 136 shader ops per clock, making the RSX more powerful for shading and is an important reason why the Xenos' advantage of more shader op flexibility doesn't matter much from the grand perspective.

In the end though, much of the RSX chip was designed specifically to take advantage of the Cell processor, so any tunnelvision comparisons between mere components are pretty much useless for coming to conclusions.

hey mike...you know why you are hated so much? Threads like this one. It makes you LOOK (I'm not calling you a tool, just saying that it's easy for people to view you as one) like a tool. Anyway, I only waded through two pages of this, but it's a very polarizing thread (among other things) which has brought me great amusement so far.

Keep it up guys!!!

The RSX can perform 1.8 TFLOPS (trillion floating point operations per second) and 74.8 billion shader operations per second (100 billion with Cell).

The Xenos can perform about 1 TFLOP and 48 billion shader operations per second. (Due to the way Microsoft worded things, this spec is most often presented wrongly, people don't read Microsoft's PR closely enough or perform wishful reading)

But actually the GFlops of both CPUs are more relevant as they can be used for a lot more (flexible). Basically the PS3 Cell sports eight 3.2 Ghz processors and the 360 three 3.2 Ghz processors, which translates well to the performance ratio the PS3 has).

- The Cell due to the way it's structured is much more efficient than the Xenon.
- The 360's GPU an CPU have to battle it out for bandwidth, this is not the case for the RSX/Cell, the Cell has its own dedicated much faster main RAM to work with.
- The amount of EDRam in the XBox 360 is too small to work with without tiling in high definition resolutions.

These are some key points why various PS3 games look so much better than anything found on the XBox 360. Additional factors are of course Blu-Ray/default harddrive.

The main reason for this thread is because many people called me to be stupid/insane when I made such predictions or shared information. I think in general vocal 360/PC fans are some of the most misinformed tunnelvisioned people I've had to deal with.

I mostly blame Microsoft for that though, they have been spreading a lot of crap since the beginning of this generation. Fanboys just repeat what their masters want them to.

Mike, don't try and feed me that BS. This thread was unnecessary, and very telling of your character. So you got a few predictions right, great, go resurrect the thread in which you posted said prediction and say "I told you so". Starting a new one will gain you no respect, it has the opposite effect, in fact, even gloating has a negative effect. Take the high road, you may actually gain some respect for it...although I fear it's too late for you on this site.

The reason you have had to deal with "360/PC" fans is because you NEVER make predictions that are positive to ANY console other than the PS3, and (once or twice) Wii, nor do you engage in a meaningful debate, you use semantics to try and make yourself look spotless whilst insulting people who dare question you. Is it any wonder you meet with such resistance? You bring this upon yourself Mike, it's YOU who creates this problem. Your comment about MS is inflammitory and is part of the attitude that causes these flame wars you always seem to be caught in the middle of. Once again, YOU bring this upon yourself. This is not MS's fault, or "PC/MS/Nintendo fanboy's" fault, take responsibility for your actions, stop trying to blame others. 

@ Ironman

@ ironman

XD You almost had me thinking they were doing something unsavory!!! You are a riot! I hate to tell you this but MS is a company that does what it can to survive and grow. (you don't have to be bankrupt or even on the verge of it to be "trying to survive" in this tepid market) They don't "Abuse" the "ignorance  of consumers" or the "zealotry of fanboys" any more than Sony, or Nintendo, or any other large tech company does. So please, run it by me again, what's wrong with MS?