Of course it is, they’ve gone from 360’ish tech to Xbox One with a better CPU/faster ram.
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LOL at the rage over Digital Foundry having the audacity to compare Switch 2 to a PS4. Nintendo fans have no chill. 
DF was being quite disingenuous with this.
I don’t recall it saying “ad” yesterday, but mostly I got excited because I thought this was DF truly comparing the versions.
It’s really just a shameless ad.
But I just found out IGN owns DF, ever since last year. Wow.
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If it didn’t it’s likely they added it to the title after youtube put up the paid ad pop up.
Autobuild sharing though is a great idea, it’s something that we want in Starfield. As it can be used to quickly recreate your ship on NG+, or try out some of the amazing designs by others.
With now Nintendo doing play data, I hope Microsoft can get devs to put more thought into the version on Xbox. Because even 1st party tends to lapse.
They don’t own DF; they just bought the company Gamer Network, which had shares in Digital Foundry but not a controlling stake.
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Yesterday it was clearly marked “Sponsored” I dont really understand the outrage about this. Its clearly marked as an ad, and the content of the video is a comparison of the games, which is what their channel is for. How is this any different than every other asshole on YouTube hocking NordVPN or Raid Shadow legends.
Mostly because it wasn’t marked Ad at first, it was marked Sponsored, which for DF means that the video is paid for by a company but they give their opinions and insights like they normally would. So I clicked the video expecting to hear DF commentary like normal, not just a straight up ad video.
No objection now that it says Ad. That’s what it should have said in the first place.
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I think it’s because it went live without being marked as such.
Also beyond faster load times, there’s no real comparison being done.
But I don’t think that’s reason enough to be angry about it as you said. As a lot of companies pay online personalities for good coverage that’s never disclosed to anyone.
“Sponsored” is literally the definition of an ad though…
I’m talking about the specific context of Digital Foundry video titles, not just what the word means in general.
I get notifications for every new video they post and watch basically all of them. They’ve never done this before now.
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Don’t get me wrong, Im no DF apologist. I think their channel is responsible for a lot of how cancerous videogame discourse has become over the last decade. Not that it was their intended mission, I dont think they do what they do with ill intent, I think they just like tech.
But they are people who run a youtube channel for a living and they sold ad space on it like literally every other youtube channel and marked it as a commercial. There is nothing to be mad, or upset, or annoyed about.
If you clicked the video you just go “oh, this is just nintendos video…” then close it and move on with your life.
Sponsored typically means “we were paid to look at this” and not “Nintendo made this video and we’re rolling it onto our channel with a thumbnail in the style of our own work, when we literally did nothing on this”. Sponsored content is your content, ads are things someone else made/owns, essentially.
Again, this was marked as “sponsored digital foundry content” but was actually just Nintendo’s own content and fully an advertisement created entirely by Nintendo but not presented as such with its thumbnail and title.
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Again, who gives a shit. There may be nothing in the world that matters less than this.
weird hill to die on, their reputation is everything for their content. You’re selling it off by making people think this video is produced by you, that’s why people care.
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