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.