Digital Foundry's blunder

Michael J. Fox once said that, "When you are celebrity, you live in the world of, YES." People admire and idolize you so much that all you hear from everyone around you is "Yes." They puff up your ego and tell you that you can do no wrong, and when you are saturated with that lifestyle eventually you start to believe it. It's human nature. We are ALL guilty of it. Digital Foundry has been looked at by the tech industry as THE AUTHORITY when it comes to analyzing the performance of electronic devices and they are very good at what they do. As long as Digital Foundry stays in that lane there are no issues because they are reporting actual information from actual tests from actual devices. Where the train jumped the tracks in my opinion is when they started voicing their opinions in an environment where people were looking for facts, and making absolute statements about situations where they did NOT have absolute knowledge. They are not so obtuse not to understand that anyone listening to their voice would not equate their opinions with fact. They know that when they make statements about what THEY thought Switch 2 would and would not have that the media would not care to differentiate their opinions from factual information and just take everything they said as Gospel-truth. They knew that whatever they said about Switch 2, people would assume that it is true, even if it is actually wrong, which a LOT of their opinions were proven to be. They also knew that people would cherry-pick juicy points from their eventual tech analysis and marry them with their pre-launch opinions (which again, were proven WRONG) and people would build whole narratives off of that, which is precisely what has happened. Even though the crew at Digital Foundry gave a final verdict that they like the Switch 2 and think that it is a great console, controversy creates cash, and they KNOW that. Unfortunately in society today, people let others do all the thinking for them and choose not to use that gimmick that God put inside of their skull, called a brain. We have seen the tear down of the Switch 2 hardware. We know exactly what is in there now. You cannot deny a bias against Nintendo, or just being a troublemaker engaging in rage-baiting and click-farming at this point if you are still trying to say Switch 2 is at PS4-level. Even Stevie Wonder can see that it is not. It is FAR above that. IN MY OPINION.......the performance of the Switch 2 puts it somewhere between the PS4 Pro/XBOX One X and XBOX Series S. I could be wrong, or I could be right. We know for a fact that it is at least more powerful than the PS4 Pro. Where on that scale it fits is not certain, but I think that would be an analysis worthy of looking into by Digital Foundry. I do think a conversation needs to happen at a later time in regards to specs vs performance. I feel that too many people worship raw specs and don't care as much about the performance for the end-user. What matters is, what experience are you getting? If you are having a good time, wasn't that the whole point of purchasing an "entertainment" device in the first place? When did raw specs become more entertaining than use of the product? I must have been absent from class that day. Enclosing, I would just like to say that Digital Foundry does a great job breaking down analysis of consumer electronic devices into molecules. They leave no stone un-turned. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, as are they. I would however advise them in the future to draw a clear distinction between forums where they are voicing their opinions and forums where they are stating facts based on actual physical testing of devices They need to keep opinion-pieces as far away as possible from the actual technical breakdowns of consumer electronic equipment and devices, or do a better job at it (e.g. adding disclaimer tags on videos to let viewers know that this is an opinion piece and should not be taken as fact.) I don't think that is out of pocket to ask. I would also suggest that we ALL stop saying what something IS or is NOT going to be without proof or knowledge of the device ahead of it's reveal. While pretty much every rumor about the Switch 2 wound up being true, it's ironic that most of those rumors painted it in a favorable light. DLSS, Ray-Tracing, 120Hz screen, 4K, 12GB of LPDDR5X RAM, Universal Flash Storage, and HDR. These are all good things very few people expected from a Nintendo device. Obviously, Nintendo has got some work to do to iron out several wrinkles in the device, but they will.

You can't spell ignorance without IGN

Take a look at this video.

This guy is going out of his way to dumb down the capabilities of the Switch 2 while literally talking to an actual developer of one of the most demanding games ever made who is saying that the Switch 2 is very capable. Comparing the Switch 2 to a PS4 means one of two things. You have a bias against Nintendo, ...or ...you are a COMPLETE idiot. Even the title of the video is brick-stupid and reeks of bias. The game RUNS on the PS4. The game RUNS on Steam Deck. If you want to shamelessly compare the Switch 2 power-level to that of those devices, why would there need to be a question to ask "How CD Projekt Red got Cyberpunk 2077 running on Switch 2?" We already have the full specs of the Switch 2 that show that it is vastly superior to the PS4. We can see with our own eyes the quality of the games that are far superior to the PS4. We have a major 3rd-party studio telling you that a massive AAA title that even had problems running on the PS5 before necessary patches were made was easily ported and runs perfectly fine on the Switch 2. It is confirmed that the Switch 2 can run native resolutions and frame rates that even PS4 Pro cannot (without even using the DLSS,) yet.............people still keep trying to compare it to a PS4. The most logical comparison to the Switch 2 is somewhere between an XBOX One X and XBOX Series S in raw horsepower and performance as the Switch 2 can reach all the same performance benchmarks as the XB1X. It doesn't matter how you get there as long as you GET there. The CPU is vastly superior in the XBOX Series S compared to Switch 2 as it is the same CPU as the Series X. The Switch 2 GPU however out performs the GPU of the Series S which is one reason why "some" games look a tiny bit better on Switch 2. However... Games that are heavily CPU dependent are gonna have a hard time on the Switch 2. It is a good sign though that a game like Cyberpunk 2077 runs so well in such a short development time. People worshiping bleeding-edge console specs really needs to stop. Being the most powerful console didn't help the XBOX Series X now did it? Being comparable in power did not help the PS5 against the Switch? PS5 Pro ain't helping either. In the 9 console generations thus far, only TWICE has the most powerful console sold the most units and/or games. The Nintendo Color TV Game, and PlayStation 4. THAT'S IT. The Atari 5200, Atari 7800, NEO-GEO, N64, XBOX, PS3, and XBOX Series X all LOST their generations despite being most powerful and many of them had SPECTACULAR failures. After seeing the failure of placing all your bets on power, after seeing the success of the Switch that prioritized concept over specs, and after seeing how trying to keep up with high-end visuals is literally bankrupting the industry, people still want to treat Nintendo like a second-class citizen because the chose to apply just enough power to get the job done.

Run from it, or Learn from it

Remember in The Lion King when Rafiki bopped Simba on top of his head with his staff to teach him about the past? Simba asked "Why did he did he do that?" Rafiki told him, "What does it matter? It's in the past." Simba said, "Yeah, but it still hurts." To which Rafiki said....

 "The past can hurt, but you can either run from it, or learn from it. Change is good, and everybody is somebody, even a nobody"

Part of our growth process is to turn pain into purpose. Every trial we face is an opportunity to level up. Failure is not when something doesn't go in your favor. Failure is when you give up.

When something jacked up happens in our lives, it is a lesson to teach us something. We are not trying to hear that in the moment, obviously. Our feelings about the situation are too strong. I think this is the missing component that people leave about in regards to giving advice on how to learn from mistakes or find purpose in pain.

YES, it DOES suck. VERY MUCH SO when something bad happens to us. We MUST acknowledge that and our feelings accordingly.

We are not robots or drones where we can just flick a switch to control our emotions. It is unhealthy and unwise to hold in your emotions, or to dismiss them.

There are ways to deal with strong emotions without causing physical or emotional harm to yourself or others.

Some form of athletic activity like running, biking, swimming, weight-lifting, martial-arts, etc. If you are like me and find it hard to exercise because of chronic pain, this is a good time to burn that energy and calories while you're at it.

Going into a sound-proof room (if you have one) and shouting the lights out. Writing EXACTLY how you feel in the moment in a journal.

Drawing a picture that represents how you feel. (This doesn't just work for kids. It works for adults too.)

Intentionally focusing on something that you know will bring you instant joy, or looking or listening to some content that makes you INSTANTLY laugh until your stomach hurts as soon as you see it.

Even crying can be very therapeutic or cathartic. You just have to release that pressure in a way that allows things to come back into focus. Sometimes (but not all the time) this alone can allow us to see that what we were so upset about really wasn't all that serious.

Once we disperse that energy, we can calm down, re-access the situation to examine just exactly what happened here, see what we can learn from it, and then plan a strategy to how to deal with the situation so that it's never an issue again in our lives and we can help others not to ever have to deal with it to begin with.