Even if DF were shills over this, which they aren't, I don't give a fuck I'm excited for any Scorpio news and it has to come from somewhere right?
Time for a wakeup call: Leadbetter is a filthy liar and a criminal.
He is full of Orwellian doublespeak straight from 1984. Either Microsoft has brainwashed him or he's deliberately lying on their behalf. I cannot believe Digital Foundry is doing business with them. It disgusts me, to the core, and it's only a matter of time until the image quality enthusiast public shun them as outcasts. This has happened to outlets before.
My friend Mark described a general scenario to me that I agree with. Picture this: you have a site that people read. This site has the potential to get a great deal of traffic, but it requires a lot of exclusives to operate. Do you write a piece for a company that has honor and will treat you with respect, or do you write the piece for a company that has none and will throw you to the dogs after they've made their buck?
(I'm talking about Microsoft and Sony in that analogy)
Microsoft will betray Digital Foundry. Scorpio piece will be the only article that Xbots will ever read, and then Digital Foundry is stuck with the image quality enthusiast base they betrayed. Checkmate. All in Microsoft's plan. The fallout from this is going to be HUGE and Digital Foundry is about to see it. I can see the writing on the wall. I'm surprised some of you can't.
I hate to see Digital Foundry fall this hard.