seems like some people were expecting the ~25% extra TF to be the be all and end all and that the praise was all going to go one way.
also the damage control narrative is bizarre, seeing as everything was pointing to MS having the more powerful console for a full year now from everything we were hearing. the idea that Sony, which has absolutely curbstomped MS this gen, is begging some relative nobodies to hype them up is laughable, and again seems like salt from the same people who thought that all everyone was gonna do this gen was jerk off about 12tf
You must've been visiting another board by mistake.
Before the specs reveal all the hot mail was that the PS5 was going to be more powerful than the Series X, likely 13tf plus. We had pigeons and verified developers hinting about puberty. It was a golden age.
In that period teraflops were the only thing worth discussing.
Then the storm clouds. When it became apparent that the PS5 was, at best, 10.2 teraflops and less powerful than the Series X, there was a brief period of relative quiet as most of the forum went into mourning (while quietly working out a new narrative).
Then, guess what?
Well, you'll be amazed, but it turns out that teraflops, GPU and CPU power have no bearing on console performance at all! Only the SSD and I/O specs matter and what's more, everyone knew it all along!
It's a miracle!