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Chris Grannel, ex Sony dev interview.

Calling all Sony fans, why is this made up this time?

Don't worry, Jason Schreier will tweet in a few hours to say he just left a secret meeting with secret devs to discuss the secret advantages that the PS5 has over the SEX. But neither Sony nor anyone will let us in on that secret, it's too powerful for us to handle.
 
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I mean, discrediting that Crytek graphics engineer that had some kind of knowledge of the devkits was ok, right? Why are you upset that people do the same to this one?
I never personally attacked the Crytek guy. I thought it was strange that he spoke about consoles in Farsi but never in English. I would never question his technical ability or suggest that he's not a developer.
He discredited himself by taking back his own comments and I'm surprised that you are still bringing him up but not a lot.
 
I never personally attacked the Crytek guy. I thought it was strange that he spoke about consoles in Farsi but never in English. I would never question his technical ability or suggest that he's not a developer.
He discredited himself by taking back his own comments and I'm surprised that you are still bringing him up but not a lot.

I was surprised the Crytek Guy thread got 1,000 replies AFTER he retracted his statements. He discredited himself when he said a weaker GPU is better for devs than a stronger GPU, imo

whole thread was a disaster, again imo
 
Then xbox fans will quickly dig up some click bait article explaining how Cerny is lying to people or yet another tweet from an unknown expert who explains in 140 characters or less how Sony have spent millions designing their console for nothing.
And the cycle will forever continue.

Watch the video. He say PS5 don't have a 'real-time ray tracing' (only one console have real-time ray tracing).
 
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Calling all Sony fans, why is this made up this time?
Its a dealer video.
I leave it there.

No i dont.

Dealer is a fucktard and is an embarrasement for xbox society.
He is phatetic IQ fighter who alwasy but always wants to shit on sony like a 10 year old manchild.
His tone his delivery.....i wouldnt hire his kind and i am sure he is some unemployed wanker and way before this virus started.
 
I 100% agree that Sony was caught off guard and believe everyone should be able to see that. Hell, even Xbox insiders were shocked when Series X was revealed at The Game Awards and showed off the actual console form factor. Series X has been in development since 2016 as they started very early to make sure they didn't have any screw ups.

Starting earlier is always better than starting later. Despite being a 100% PS4/PS4 Pro fanboy since mid-2014 and being very critical of Xbox One for the entire generation, im all in for Series X as it's going to be a far more capable console and better overall pound for pound.

PlayStation 5 will be amazing due to their first party exclusives but third parties will struggle on it especially with Ray Tracing which for me, is my number one priority for next generation in regards to visuals. I personally want the best overall and for next generation, Series X is going to give me that.
 
Its a dealer video.
I leave it there.

No i dont.

Dealer is a fucktard and is an embarrasement for xbox society.
He is phatetic IQ fighter who alwasy but always wants to shit on sony like a 10 year old manchild.
His tone his delivery.....i wouldnt hire his kind and i am sure he is some unemployed wanker and way before this virus started.

But Dealer isn't the one who made those claims so what's your point?
 
For the last couple weeks a narrative is being pushed on Neogaf about PS5 being "better engineered" device using more "quality parts" and XSX being a "brute force" machine with "heavy bottlenecks". But, everything he says makes it sound like XSX is better engineered.
Personally I think it is , Sony dropped the ball. Nobody wants those extra variables.
 
But Dealer isn't the one who made those claims so what's your point?



a) A guy who worked with games 10 years ago talking on an xbox fanboy podcast.

b) Developers currently working with devkits, talking to Jason Schreier


What will be the most credible alternative?
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Cerny speaks: lie

a guy who hasn't worked with games for over 10 years ago, speaking on an xbox fanboy podcast: true, worth it.
 
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When you have to rationalize and overly explain the intricacies of your console you've kind of shit the bed. It's just wordsmithing at that point to make something which is less appealing, less ideal and less powerful appear to be more than it is.
 
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But Dealer isn't the one who made those claims so what's your point?
You must be new to dealer.
He takes some words from somewhere and magnifies it to 1000.

Dealer talk to me when you show games on your chanel like you know games that are the main reason to invest into a console.
Cuz if you push halo and gears and forza for the next 7 years with your 12 tf its time to give up.
 
Does his opinion on a podcast matter because he worked for Sony 10 years ago? Do many people here regard his opinion highly? Just learning about this guy today, honestly.
 
I keep imagining an xbox fan inviting someone to a podcast, where the guy will say that the xbox is rubbish and the playstation is better.
Oddly enough, I hear Playstation podcasts giving the nod to the Xbox superior GPU. But yeah, until games are shown, not much to talk about yet.
 
You must be new to dealer.
He takes some words from somewhere and magnifies it to 1000.

Dealer talk to me when you show games on your chanel like you know games that are the main reason to invest into a console.
Cuz if you push halo and gears and forza for the next 7 years with your 12 tf its time to give up.
He's not taking anything and twisting it though, it's an unedited interview with the guy having free reign to express his views.
 
I keep imagining an xbox fan inviting someone to a podcast, where the guy will say that the xbox is rubbish and the playstation is better.

Yeah? That's what I think about all those Sony 1st party devs talking about how the SSD magically is the new metric for power now. I don't really imagine them saying the opposite.

He also didn't talk bad about the PS5 at all, if you're less powerful well you're less powerful that's just the way it is.
 
This guy looks weird... most of his claims are false.
And so some articles were made quoting the video and after he is mad because he says "he didn't said that" lol
He doesn't have a PS5 devkit too.

So I'm not sure what he is trying to archive here.
Or maybe we know... to accept to make a interview for Dealer you indeed have clear ideia of what you want to do lol
 
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You must be new to dealer.
He takes some words from somewhere and magnifies it to 1000.

Dealer talk to me when you show games on your chanel like you know games that are the main reason to invest into a console.
Cuz if you push halo and gears and forza for the next 7 years with your 12 tf its time to give up.

I do know dealer. He'd been saying for 6 months before the SEX reveal that there's no chance the PS5 will be more powerful and he was right. He's a Xbox fan but at least he doesn't make up BS like a lot of his type did before the spec reveals.
 
Similar to with that Crytek guy; these kind of interviews always have to be taken with a small grain of salt. But it's always interesting to hear the perspective of developers on next-gen systems.

Most devs probably don't know shit (lack of knowledge, experience, etc.) and have shitty analytical skills. I'm not in game dev but I've done development work before and all software engineers/programmers can code to whatever extent when told what to do and they can form an opinion on a matter; but not everyone in field has the same level of knowledge, experience and critical thinking. It's like listening to a random doctor who is a general practitioner on a medical issue. If you don't know shit, he/she is the best you've got but just because they are a doctor doesn't mean everything they say is true or has value. They have gaps, biases, limitations or whatever. Which is why it's often suggested you get second-opinions. There's different debatable levels of expertise like you would probably listen to a lead heart surgeon over a general practitioner over heart advice. Similarly in game development, it's better to listen to some kind of technical lead who really understands everything over some random low tier dev. Though keep in mind even people with high credentials can be wrong, my point is just that not everyone who is in the industry has a (arguably) credible opinion.
 
Yeah? That's what I think about all those Sony 1st party devs talking about how the SSD magically is the new metric for power now. I don't really imagine them saying the opposite.

He also didn't talk bad about the PS5 at all, if you're less powerful well you're less powerful that's just the way it is.

Developers, including third party, talking to Jason Schreier
 
This guy looks weird... most of his claims are false.
And so some articles were made quoting the video and after he is mad because he says "he didn't said that" lol
He doesn't have a PS5 devkit too.

So I'm not sure what he is trying to archive here.
He's free to express his opinion as a distant observer, of course.

Were it not for the fact that he happened to work for Guerilla some years ago, people would just take it as someone's opinion and leave it at that. ;)
 
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a) A guy who worked with games 10 years ago talking on an xbox fanboy podcast.

b) Developers currently working with devkits, talking to Jason Schreier


What will be the most credible alternative?
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Cerny speaks: lie

a guy who hasn't worked with games for over 10 years ago, speaking on an xbox fanboy podcast: true, worth it.

Who are those developers ?? According to Schreier they told him the PS5 is superior in soo many ways. Well ... what are they?

Cerny did a deep dive but omitted to speak about all those things that make the PS5 HW superior ..? Come on man, we all know that's bs lol.
 
Who are those developers ?? According to Schreier they told him the PS5 is superior in soo many ways. Well ... what are they?

Cerny did a deep dive but omitted to speak about all those things that make the PS5 HW superior ..? Come on man, we all know that's bs lol.

Developers who have access to Devkits cannot speak, NDA.
Who can speak is who does not have access.
 
He said multiple times he has SPOKE to multiple devs, that right there means he has more information than anyone on here who just wants to be a fanboy. He has heard PS has cooling issues, this has been rumored more than once, I dont see how people can keep dismissing this. There is no reason why Sony would not have talked about it more when Cerny did or showed off the box like Xbox did if this wasnt somewhat true. Theres even rumors of Sony having to spend more on the cooling than they wanted to. The man is speaking from experience and also his sources which are first hand, I get ppl want to dismiss it because it hurts "their box" but he has no reason to lie.
 
What is Chris Grannel working on. I want to see it... Sadly the only reason that Xbox cast or Xbox fans gives Grannel any clout, is because he worked at Sony, funny how that works. So yes, that's his pedigree right there, many years ago he worked at Sony.... So they use that to sell his opinion as fact, but they are still hating Playstation, it's influence, popularity and status at every turn.....
 
He's free to express his opinion as a distant observer, of course.

Were it not for the fact that he happened to work for Guerilla some years ago, people would just take it as someone's opinion and leave it at that. ;)
Yeap he is free but he contradicts himself.
He said a lot of crap at the video with fake info and now he says that on twiiter.



I think that is what happens when Sony miss another Tuesday megaton day... maybe next one will be better.
 
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I was surprised the Crytek Guy thread got 1,000 replies AFTER he retracted his statements. He discredited himself when he said a weaker GPU is better for devs than a stronger GPU, imo

whole thread was a disaster, again imo
Crytek guy instead used experience that game game developer will say the same because they are true... and got into NDA by Crytek so forced to retract what he said.
(BTW he never said what you claim lol).

vs

This guys interview where he says PS5 doesn't have Ray-tracing.

Yeap... one of them is flat out lying... is it that hard to find which one?
 
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I do know dealer. He'd been saying for 6 months before the SEX reveal that there's no chance the PS5 will be more powerful and he was right. He's a Xbox fan but at least he doesn't make up BS like a lot of his type did before the spec reveals.
He does what now? No bs?
Idiot crapgamer has more credibility than this dumbfuck.

I really dont have the time to compile all the shit he was spreading for years note years not months.

He is a fan but he is a console warrior and honestly i would encourage mods to ban his content on this forum for many reasons.
 
He has heard PS has cooling issues, this has been rumored more than once, I dont see how people can keep dismissing this.
Cooling was a major concern thoughout development, this is well known and even was addressed in Cerny's talk. Nobody is dismissing that. Is it that hard to believe that maybe they got it under control in the end?

I do see plenty of people doing the opposite though.
 
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Has he worked with the devkits?
Choose an alternative:


a) several developers, including third party working with devkits, talking to Jason Schreier

b) Designer retired for almost 15 years, that the closest he gets to working making a game is when he records a podcast with xbox fanboys, who has no access to any devkit



It seems quite simple which side has credibility.

Most devs who praised PS5 are either first party or associated with Sony in some way(includes Ready at Dawn). Those that are 3rd party indie
Regarding those that are not Sony in that list
Matt Philips


Mike Evans


Dale North


This dude composed for Dragon Fantasy Book II(PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 and later WiiU), Sparklite(multi-platform) and Wizard of Legend(multi-platform).

Olivier JT


Randy Pitchford


So, this SSD jargon is mostly Sony devs and their circlejerk. Instead of checking what they said you jut quoted a Ree post and used it for your SSD PR.
The guys actually praising PS5 are indie devs and Randy(who is making a PS5 exclusive). The AMD dude is just saying both are great.

That way Grant Kot's post about XSX being more powerful than his 8700K RTX 2080 can also be used. Theres also Richard Geldreich(ex- Valve, Space X and Ensemble), who said this


If you really to use those indie dev quotes, I will gladly spam Louise Kirby tweets in this thread for you.
Ultimately there is no quote from an actual third party dev saying which console is better because this is what a DICE dev said regarding the Crytek guy.
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Most devs who praised PS5 are either first party or associated with Sony in some(includes Ready at Dawn). Those that are 3rd party indie

That way Grant Kot's post about XSX being more powerful than his 8700K RTX 2080 can also be used. Theres also Richard Geldreich(ex- Valve, Space X and Ensemble), who said this


If you really to use those indie dev quotes, I will gladly spam Louise Kirby tweets in this thread for you.
Ultimately there is no quote from an actual third party dev saying which console is better because this is what a DICE dev said regarding the Crytek guy.
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PS5 confirmed tomato flavoured.
 
To people who watched it, are these quotes real? if so this is embarrassing coming from a game dev even if retired, something you would expect from pr journos
The big [difference] really is the amount of CUs (compute units) that's pretty…that's pretty huge when you start to look at real time ray tracing and things like that…Where PS5 is potentially going to struggle is some of those big third party games like open world [games]."
Yeah lets completely ignore clock speeds
"There's only one next-gen console that will be able to do real time ray tracing. That's a bit of a controversial statement…but Cerny skipped over it and didn't talk about it…it comes down to CUs, consistency, what's on the hardware."
Cerny mentioned a game using rt reflections and there's also Quantum Error. Shows how informed he really is
Didn't Crytek Guy completely retract his statements?
Deleted doesn't necessarily translate to retract, he didn't make any retraction comments, another possibility is he was forced to delete it due to NDAs?
 
What is Chris Grannel working on. I want to see it... Sadly the only reason that Xbox cast or Xbox fans gives Grannel any clout, is because he worked at Sony, funny how that works. So yes, that's his pedigree right there, many years ago he worked at Sony.... So they use that to sell his opinion as fact, but they are still hating Playstation, it's influence, popularity and status at every turn.....
First of all, we made a thread on Richard Geldreich way before this. Didnt you guys also latch into Corrine Yu, ex-343i dev who started talking shit about Xbox after joining Naughty Dog?
Secondly, you guys keep saying "devs" believe PS5 is better, mostly those associated with Sony in some way, so now you make your own rule about it cant be from Sony.
Thirdly, someone directly associated with Microsoft/Sony cant speak because of NDA unless told to do so(Read the Dice guys statement from my previous post). For example there are quotes from Xbox first party devs in the Project Scarlet reveal video.
Since it is a waste of my time and effort to reply to your delusions, so I wont be replying to your next posts. After all you took that Crytek guy seriously, who has been a game dev for only a year(in modern Crytek of all places, who have closed most studios and fired most of their key staffs) and whose interview and tweets were removed by Crytek themselves, but question Chris Grannel instead.
 
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First of all, we made a thread on Richard Geldreich way before this. Didnt you guys also latch into Corrine Yu, ex-343i dev who started talking shit about Xbox after joining Naughty Dog?
Secondly, you guys keep saying "devs" believe PS5 is better, mostly those associated with Sony in some way, so now you make your own rule about it cant be from Sony.
Thirdly, someone directly associated with Microsoft/Sony cant speak because of NDA unless told to do so(Read the Dice guys statement from my previous post). For example there are quotes from Xbox first party devs in the Project Scarlet reveal video.
Since it is a waste of my time and effort to reply to your delusions, so I wont be replying to your next posts. After all you took that Crytek guy seriously, who has been a game dev for only a year(in modern Crytek of all places, who have closed most studios and fired most of their key staffs) and whose interview and tweets were removed by Crytek themselves, but question Chris Grannel instead.
He is probably working at Crytek for a year, has he only been a dev for a year? These are two different things you are saying......Get it right...

Also, we have a current dev talking about next gen consoles, he is excited on what is not even an exclusive, but perhaps what will be one of the most ambitious efforts by a third party dev in the Crysis Remake, maybe even a port of Hunt, but you want me to be more excited for what Grannel a disgruntled former Sony employee has to say......Tell me what Grannel is working on, if it's more exciting than Hunt and Crysis Remake......I will join you in this hosanna…..
 
Yeap he is free but he contradicts himself.
He said a lot of crap at the video with fake info and now he says that on twiiter.



I think that is what happens when Sony miss another Tuesday megaton day... maybe next one will be better.


seems GAF narrative is more credible.
 
Don't worry, Jason Schreier will tweet in a few hours to say he just left a secret meeting with secret devs to discuss the secret advantages that the PS5 has over the SEX. But neither Sony nor anyone will let us in on that secret, it's too powerful for us to handle.
Fool! Your sarcasm will be thy doom!

You want to know what happens to the uninitiated who learn of the recipe of the secret sauce without receiving physical and mental training?

You wanna?

YOU WANNA!?!?

WELL THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS!!



Actually, I am kidding. Truth is, the video above is captured footage of a PS5 developer whose devkit's cooling system stop working for five seconds.
 
He does what now? No bs?
Idiot crapgamer has more credibility than this dumbfuck.

I really dont have the time to compile all the shit he was spreading for years note years not months.

He is a fan but he is a console warrior and honestly i would encourage mods to ban his content on this forum for many reasons.
Another example of someone losing all personal dignity in he name of console wars. Resorting to name calling and appealing to censorship because of a technical interview? on the free internet?

Crytek guy instead used experience that game game developer will say the same because they are true... and got into NDA by Crytek so forced to retract what he said.
(BTW he never said what you claim lol).

vs

This guys interview where he says PS5 doesn't have Ray-tracing.

Yeap... one of them is flat out lying... is it that hard to find which one?
I'll tell you who's lying. YOU.
  1. There is no proof that any NDA was involved in the Crytek guy retracting his statements. He could very well have been proven wrong and walked back what he said. You are spreading a fabrication:
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  2. Chris Grannel has developed for Sony and has a verifiable track record as a dev. Nowhere does he say that the PS5 does not have ray tracing. He said that it's an area where the PS5 will not be able to compete and all he's saying is based on what he's hearing in the industry. There's another dev on the show supporting his claims
So to sum up you made up 2 lies and asked us to decide who was lieing between the two. All in the name if a plastic box that you don't own. You're taking console warring to unprecedented heights Sir.
 
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