Topic: Please stop with the numbers

[Shecky]

Wait....

So, specs are set in stone, can never change, and are accurate of the final product???   HAHA! Nice.

Please go look up the original PS2 specs, the original PSP specs and compare them to what actually came out.
You can do the same for GCN and Xbox while your at it.  Companies do have histories of habit.  Sony is known to overstate (PSP was toned down quite a bit)

It's also stupid that people are comparing apples to oranges....

The PS2 is the weakest of the current generation, saying the ps3 is 35x more than the ps2 cannot be compared to saying xbox360 is 10x the xbox.... they're different baselines.  Even then the x this and the x that... in terms of what? raw processing power?  Oh wait no one knows, b/c it's all an approximation and hand waving.

FWIW... You could play with these numbers and come up with the Xbox not even being 1.35 times as powerful as the PS2
Based on sony saying the PS3 was 2x as powerful as the xbox 360

My plea, please stop with the numbers.  There is no strength to any of them.  

[couchmonkey]

Amen!  I don't even bother with specs.  I'll look at the games when they're actually playable on the hardware and judge the graphics then.

[Famicom]

I don't care, and I personally don't think anyone else on this board cares about the numbers game personally, since we all know it's a bunch of smoke and mirrors as history has told us. But the greater issue is that the mainstream public buys into this stuff, so from a mindshare point of view it's pretty important for companies to put up comparable numbers. I'm sure already there's several sheep writing off the Rev due to Kaplan's statement of 2-3 times more powerful when Sony said 35. No one will really care about the phrasing, the exact quote, or the grounds for coming up with the numbers, just the numbers.