Did Digital Foundry just subtly dog whistle MS to sabotage their PS ports in the future?

Polyh3dron

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Why should DF care about any of this? Would they care the other way around or would they go straight into “Here Series X shows the hw advantage”?
they're pointing out something that is really weird because it's really weird

theoretically the series x does have a slim hw advantage

when their own studios release PS5 versions of games which shipped on Xbox years prior that have some kind of advantage on PS5, whether it's a frame rate thing or even something as miniscule as shadow quality, and it's clearly not a byproduct of difference in hardware capability, but rather the amount of effort the devs put into one version vs the other, it naturally raises questions.
 

Gediminas

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they're pointing out something that is really weird because it's really weird

theoretically the series x does have a slim hw advantage

when their own studios release PS5 versions of games which shipped on Xbox years prior that have some kind of advantage on PS5, whether it's a frame rate thing or even something as miniscule as shadow quality, and it's clearly not a byproduct of difference in hardware capability, but rather the amount of effort the devs put into one version vs the other, it naturally raises questions.
theoretically means theoretically, when made in a vacuum. but hardware and games aren't made in vacuum. so it is just short sighted to look just at theoretical.
 

Thirty7ven

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they're pointing out something that is really weird because it's really weird

theoretically the series x does have a slim hw advantage

when their own studios release PS5 versions of games which shipped on Xbox years prior that have some kind of advantage on PS5, whether it's a frame rate thing or even something as miniscule as shadow quality, and it's clearly not a byproduct of difference in hardware capability, but rather the amount of effort the devs put into one version vs the other, it naturally raises questions.

It’s always the same argument, even now with Xbox studios porting to PS5 we get this? They spent more time and effort on PS5?