Not sure if someone has already said this but, I remember someone from Microsoft said they were considering bringing the "code to the metal" stuff used on Xbox One to PCs. That was like a couple of months ago, and I've tried searching for it again, but can't find it.
Wouldn't DX12 be simply about that, thus explaining why they then included Xbox One on that teaser site, being that new DX12 features would be based on the Xbox One API?
I could be completely wrong, but it's something I remember reading. If someone could find it I'd greatly appreciate it.
Anything I can point to that can prove him wrong?
Common sense, as someone already suggested.
Misterxmedia basically claims that every single new tech that is revealed somehow already exists in the Xbone. G-Sync? X1 has it. Mantle? Based on Xbox One software (which it isn't), 3D die stacking? APU has that too. Lower res games? HANA2, the magic X1 scaler chip, makes games look much better than native res (HANA isn't even a scaler chip, it was a chip that handled the different video outputs on the Xbox 360, anyone who spouts HANA2 is full of it, the "better" image came from people liking crushed blacks and sharpening filter), whatever. The guy and his blog are a running joke here on GAF, I'm sure you have seen those several times here, but didn't know (hidden dGPU, secret sauce, more colors, 4 Teraflops, etc).
So if you need something to prove the guy wrong, just ask for
actual evidence, don't take crazy theories or a bunch of pictures with MS Paint lines all over them.
Was it ever explained why it looks like that? Aesthetics?
No one has explained it, it could be a standard thing on silicon for all we know. Problem comes when people try to use that as proof of stacked secret sauce.
Hell, if you look at the
PS4 one, you could say it has that stacked stuff too (like dots everywhere in the layer below), but it has a dotted pattern all around the AMD logo, so we can't really see clearly underneath.
The X1 one doesn't have a pattern all over the place covering whatever is underneath, so we can easily see more.
Who is PNF4LYFE on twitter? He's spamming random crap about this on it. I can't make out what he is trying to say. He seems pretty insane.
Oh, he is back? Some crazy guy that even harassed the Xbox staff on Twitter when something didn't turn out as he expected. He was suspended for a while.
I apologize for going off-topic here, but I felt I needed to reply/write all of this.