As long as we all agree it’s an excuse.
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Meant to put “excuse” in quotes. Last warning on this. Pandemic has impacted the world. You should feel fortunate that you don’t have evidence around you to support that.
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I mean a few hundred thousand hardcore people watch DF videos. Out of hundreds of millions of gamers. The reality is that one console being way way better than the other cuts through to the populous when they can look at one and see the graphics are clearly better…but where one has a tiny frame rate advantage,the vast vast vast majority of people don’t know and care even less.
The small bubbles that hardcore games associate in online completely distort the importance of this. I mean when Xbox has an advantage it won’t suddenly mean it sells better than the PS5, we saw that with the One x…
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I honestly think that Microsoft should enforce development restrictions on third party developers they are partnered with. In other words, let them dedicate most focus on optimizing the Xbox versions of games. After the Xbox versions of the games are well-optimized, allow them to focus on the other consoles.
Sony seems to do that with all developers they are partnered with (Activision, Rockstar, etc).
Eh. Those issues will get ironed out in no time.
Even if PS5 has a slight advantage for the rest of the gen, I couldn’t care less.
Literally all that matters are exclusives. I think that will be MS true test. Seeing if Hellblade 2, Fable, Avowed, Halo Infinite, The Initiative and whatever Zenimax brings to the table deliver the goods.
Hardware and software has come in hot. There are legitimate reasons to be disappointed as consumers. Things to discuss in terms of which platform has been impacted the most. Things to discuss in terms of solutions. There are different circumstances on each platform which have different results. Regardless of which aspects you wish to focus on, please do not disrespect people working through the pandemic or minimize the impact of the pandemic.
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For enthusiasts the situation is unclear because the seriesX showed better overall performance in DMC5 and a tiny advantage in the cold war RT mode plus VRR only on xbox.
So right now it a wash which device is the better for visuals and performance.
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I didn’t watch the video myself but my buddy told me DF says they don’t understand what’s going on. Which is kinda odd. It’s better to just say what is likely going on here at the moment so that the people not in the know about this do now know about it.
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Its better to just watch the video, but I didnt get that impression at all.
As a follow up, John said he doesn’t want to open a can of worms by sharing DM’s (my DM’s with him, I mean). Which is understandable. You are welcome to ignore my claim of proof he confirmed the other DM was accurate and correct if so desired, but I wouldn’t recommend it. 
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Yeah after thinking about this, I could see it. I do remember the Dirt 5 devs mentioning something about multithreading and how things changed very late in development as a result of it. Good points!
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No lol
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Yeah, guess I’ll do that. It’s just that I’m personally a little through with all this, haha. Just fully enjoying my XSX, too busy with that. All I hope is that things improve to the fullest next year so that the full potential can be had with this already fantastic system.
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Let me grief 
Things will definitely improve and at the end of the day the seriesX will still provide the best console experience the majority of the time.
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I forgot about this, but yeah def a good point here.
I don’t think any of these current games are using DX12 though.
Some are. There was some game where Alex pointed out how on PC it ran notably better on DX11 than DX12. Not sure which one that was.
I think it was Watchdogs Legions.
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However the Dirt 5 developer said that wasn’t the case and MS tools aren’t behind.