N4G is a fun place at the moment. So many people willing to believe anything if it puts something in a negative or positive light depending on their console bend. This is that time of a console generation where PR runs rampant. Just before the start when rumours, leaks, and "insider sources" start spreading around like wildfire.
At the center of it all, the fanboys willing to immediately believe whatever supports their preference or "destroys" the opposition. Like today for example. How many Xbox One fanboys pounced on a rumour about exactly how much RAM is going to be available for use on the PS4 for games? I'll tell you. EVERY SINGLE ONE! Why? Because Microsoft have made such a terrible PR disaster of the Xbox One, that the fanboys will jump on anything even slightly good for the Xbox One or slightly bad for the PS4.
Digital Foundry is making claims they can't back up. As long as they hide behind anonymous sources that say different things, they may as well have not posted anything at all because the information is equivalent to no information at all. We all know WHY they did it though. For the hits. But barring all the common sense reasons they are more than likely wrong, their article served its purpose.
As soon as there was even a hint of the PS4 even having one byte less RAM available for games than the Xbox One, the Xbox One fanboys were ready to jump on that like a flea on a dog. They didn't care about no fancy ability like reading. All they needed to see was a number that was less than the Xbox One's number and the word RAM next to, or before, that number and they immediately felt a sense of vindication and proceeded to bust out the Haw Haw's.
This is all with good reason though. You can't actually completely blame the fanboys here. You see, Microsoft have been failing the fanboys left right and center. Microsoft have been disingenuous, absentminded, non-committed, and have turned the Xbox One into a PR pancake. They have been hurriedly trying to play catch up that they just look foolish. Every new policy they backtrack on is a good move on paper, but the reason they did it has nothing to do with any kind of respect for the gaming community.
So when the world was looking towards Sony and the PS4 and seeing nothing but good things and showering it with praise, the Xbox One was over in a dark corner with only the buzzwords of "vision" and "future" to keep it company; its fanboys defending the indefensible.
Here's the thing to remember though. Anonymous sources can literally be anyone. Anonymously given information can literally be anything. Just because you want to have a justification for your preference is no reason to throw out any common sense you may have left out the window. I can easily come up with an article that says that my brother-in-law's best friend's cousin works with a girl whose boyfriend has a job at Sony and he said that the PS4 is actually coming out with 16GB of GDDR6 RAM and call it "insider sources."
Before pouncing on something just because you want to feel a sense of vindication and justification, use that all too rare super power known as Common Sense. Also ask yourself the question of why you need to have that vindication and justification if everything was allegedly perfect beforehand.
**EDIT** In the interest of balance, I will stick to my word about the inclusion of anything that portrays the opposite end of the spectrum. For example, the Sony fanboys that are now making the claim "we didn't need that much RAM" after having given the Xbox One fanboys a hard time with their own "Ha Ha, we have 7GB of RAM and you only have 5." What is important to note is that the 7GB thing was also a rumour started by an alleged PS4 developer.
http://ps4daily.com/2013/04...
So there we have a developer, anonymous of course, stating that 1GB of RAM was locked off from them for the OS. However, what isn't made clear is if the developer in question was making that statement for when all developers thought the PS4 only had 4GB of RAM as Sony gave out dev kits that only had 4GB of RAM.
This means that, at the time, it could have been an easy possibility that developers thought there was only going to be 3GB of RAM available and later on Sony added 1.5GB more (if you believe the current rumour) of available RAM for games and another 3.5GB of RAM for the OS. This just shows that everyone has been the puppet of the gaming media again in this new generation as they bounce rumours off all of us to get our hits and stir the s***.
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"Anonymous sources can literally be anyone. Anonymously given information can literally be anything"
This is my gripe with gaming journalism. Too many times do we get anonymous sources that turn out to be bogus but then as soon as someone gets it right then all is forgotten and forgiven. Do publications bother with fact checking.
I am not saying this rumour is false (waiting for a Sony response on that) but from past experiences reading (from both generations) so much rumour articles created with little substance. All seem to ruin their credibility when they do not fact check.
It's the console wars man. I get called "DedicatedToSony" on a daily basis simply because I play on Sony platforms, despite the fact I spend more time on my PC and Nintendo stuff than my Sony stuff. But it's easier to write someone off if it's "us vs them" and the Xbox fanbase has been getting hammered non-stop for the past several months.
The PS4 RAM "downgrade" is only the second piece of bad news since the PS4 was announced in February. It has been a literal drought for fanboys wanting ammunition to shoot at the PS4. But amidst the planetary bombardment on the Xbox brand someone finds an unspent .45 bullet with Sony's name on it and now they're running around with a pistol in their hand shouting that the war is over.
To be fair, it's exactly what happened to the PS3 fanboys, and it's pretty funny to see the Xbox loyalists using identical arguments to what people said back in 2006, right down to the persecution complex of "you said something bad about Sony? This website had a negative article about PS3? XBOX FANBOY!"
What's even odder is that the Xbox camp has spent the last two months defending the 3 Gig OS footprint for the Xbox One, saying how they're so dang excited for all these multimedia features. Now, there are some people (me included) who rallied against Microsoft for that and now I'm eating crow, but why are Xbox fans mocking the PS4? They're basically saying "nyah nyah! Now you have the ability to do what we've been praising for two months. Nyah nyah". It's an absurd case of pot calling kettle black. If that 3 Gig OS footprint was just SO fantastic, why are Xbox fans jabbing insults now that PS4 has it too?
I had a good laugh with this thanks Dragonknight xD.
Wow,
The two main culprits. Why am I not surprised that I see Dedicated AND Dragonnight having a party and calling out the Xbox fanboys. You two are hilarious and are prime examples of what is wrong with this community.
First of all I just saw Dedicated get busted wide open in his own blog. It wasn't even funny how bad that was and the fact is you cannot deny it. The proof is written down on the internet forever. I'll comment on that in your own blog later.
But Dragon, I am shocked. I knew you were a sony diehard but you had some sense of logic whenever you put something down on this site. What happened? This whole blog reeks of bitterness and anger. Where was the blog when all the Sony fanboys were laughing and pointing their fingers at X1 about how much less RAM it had? Where was the blog on the "flip flopping" (the new buzz word)Sony fanboys were doing when they now have to pay for PS+? Where is the blog that stated that the petition to get the DRM back on X1 might have been started by Sony fanboys?
Nope, but lord forbid the mud get slinged right back in your face when you fanboys took something Sony never said and tried to exploit it for your own personal gain. Nope, no blog for that.
It doesn't matter if the rumor is true or not we have already seen your two and others true colors. When PS4 had more RAM than X1, it was all "Sony loves gamers, X1 is only for TV" when these rumors started now it's: "It's okay we don't need all that RAM."
And who said this...ALL THE SONY FANBOYS.
You two really need to step outside your bias because it is making you two look rather foolish.
"Before pouncing on something just because you want to feel a sense of vindication and justification"
You should take your own advice Dragon.
My anonymous insider source who works for a company WHOM I CAN NOT SAY.. has told me that the Wii U is going to get an upgrade to 32 gigs of GDDR8 ram. By all means you should believe me.. AND MY SOURCE
In all seriousness.. I'm getting tired of rumors. I've learned to not even bother reading the stuff these sites are finding out from their "VERY RELIABLE SOURCE". You either tell me who found it out or don't bother writing anything.