It's official: these morons will keep saying PS5 is not RDNA2, has no RT and is 9.2TF till the end of next gen even if Phil Spencer would say the opposite.
I doubt very much they really believe it themselves. I think they just want fence-sitters and casual passersby to believe it and pass it on.
That’s why it will always be brought back up as often as possible, no matter how much they are corrected or shown to be misleading or wrong.
The ends justify the means.
The “ends” they want is more sales for the console brand that makes up a big part of their identity, to help win some competitive “war”. With the amount of obsession and emotion shown, there’s just no way people like this have any kind of balanced and healthy life away from the internet. No matter how hard they try to disguise it or laugh it off.
The “means“ employed to help a brand they’ve centred their entire persona around is in convincing the majority of people that don’t look too closely or question anything that the biggest rival is somehow flawed or has dropped the ball.
Sometimes even straight up paid for “marketing” works this way. A lot of the time it’s simply what I can only perceive to be people with some kind of cognitive or developmental issues attaching themselves to some brand/ideology/etc and getting far too emotionally invested to the point it starts to become part of their identity.
The internet and social media are like megaphones for these types of people.
If you met one in real life you’d feel more pity and a need to keep your distance rather than react and reply as we tend to do online.