@Shewgenja: Destiny's an interesting case, as well. While it's not the same series, I'd bet there were plenty of Sony fan-Halo bashers who are pretty pumped Destiny's coming to Playstation.

I bet quite a few Sony fans who are trashing this game would be pretty excited if it was coming to both consoles.

Haha, I'm fully expecting this to be locked almost immediately. The experiment's really only relevant to people on the Nintendo boards, so I said screw it and posted it here.

While I love talking about games, most people on the Nintendo board know there's something else going on with my decidedly odd choice for a user name. I told myself at 200 posts, I'd shed a little light on the reason. I'll do the same again, probably at 500 and 1000.

I have a career in film and TV, and I'm studying the psyche and anonymity of the faceless internet, and as a big Nintendo fan on the GS boards, who better to screw with, right?

I'm fascinated with people's behavior on the internet, and how it differs between the real world, other professional outlets on the web, and the sporadic, anything goes wild safari that are message boards, specifically why people behave in ways that wouldn't be acceptable in the real world, and what kind of gain people get from behaving that way in an environment where they'll have little consequences.

I'm doing this on several different message boards outside of video games, but the subjects are typically the same.

***ByTheWayILoveNintendoSoNowI'vePostedSomethingRelevant--Can'tWaitForMarioKart8***

That's my paltry attempt at making this Nintendo relevant, but I got a lot of immediate followers from the Nintendo board when I signed up with this account, so welcome inside a small part of my world.

^^^ Side note -- Jesus Christ at your PC specs. 32GB of RAM, are you composing soundtracks for Christopher Nolan movies?!

@MBirdy88: My original post was my opinion that arguing about the graphical quality of a last-gen port is pretty irrelevant. And when it comes down to it, almost everything people say on these boards in terms of raw facts are largely exaggerated or outright false. What I do know is that by the end of the ps3 era, it was an often talked about point that the cell processor made game development more difficult than necessary.

Because of this, Sony talked openly about their desire to create an interface with the ps4 that was easier for developers to get a handle on. Microsoft has said very little on this subject, leading to a speculation that perhaps the Xbox One might have early challenges when it comes to game development. The truth is, neither you, myself, or anyone else on these boards really has any idea how difficult it is to develop for either platform, but in speculation, my hypothesis potentially makes sense. I'm not saying it's true or false, I'm admitting that I'm not a game developer, so I'm doing what everyone else on here does -- make an educated guess (some of us more educated than others).

What I do know is that I've run Ryse and Killzone on the same television, without video compression, or relying on someone else's integrity when comparing consoles. And in doing that, I have to honestly say graphically both games are pretty much on the same level. I haven't run into the frame rate problems on the Xbox One people are seeing, and the console is definitely more than capable of putting out good looking games.

In that, I made an educated guess that maybe there's something under the hood third party developers are struggling to understand on the console. In raw specs, the obvious answer is that the ps4 is a more capable console, so more than likely it's just that simple as to why the ps4 runs third party games better. But after seeing Ryse running well on the Xbox One, I don't see the system as something that's unable to properly run a game like Tomb Raider at a stable frame rate without another factor adding in. In that, I guessed, which is what we all do when we argue about consoles, that there might have been some kind of challenge in development. And there might have been. We don't know. We probably won't ever know.

But to close it off, if the system can run Ryse, which looks better than any other next-gen release outside of Killzone, it shouldn't have problems running games of a lower graphical quality.

Year One -- You spend months researching, saving, and finally building a state of the art, balls to the wall gaming PC. For the next 365 days, all third party releases will be played with max settings and the highest resolution your fancy new monitor can handle. Any game released more than half a year before you build your PC will now run at 90 FPS + and almost run too fast for your eyes to handle, but you'll never admit it -- this is way too awesome. You spend hours on forums and modding websites turning Skyrim from a mediocre fantasy world into a sprawling landscape that rivals reality. Year one is pure bliss.

Year Two -- This is the tweaking year. Frequent dusting, a loaded up hard drive, general wear and tear, and a few less than secure downloads for Far Cry 3 mods have caused your PC to lose a step or two. Some of the bigger releases no longer run at absolute max settings, meaning the first install of a new game will result in more tweaking of graphical settings than actual game playing. A few of the long winded games may end up being purchased for consoles, as the couch and 60" LED are looking awfully comfy compared to your rigid desk chair. But still, your PC impresses.

Year Three -- Newer games are running in high settings, while you compromise on whether or not you'd rather have 1080P resolution or full anti-aliasing. More and more games that aren't essential to a mouse and keyboard find their way onto your shelf via home console. Your PC's being used more for internet surfing and work.

Year Four -- Your once state of the art PC is now a shell of its former self. Only the kinds of games you refuse to play on console like Bethesda releases find their way onto your PC shelf. You're now almost exclusively a console gamer because thinking about getting a new release to run without being able to run anything but medium settings is a travesty and is not the reason you got into PC gaming. Now, you much prefer buying a new game and having a machine where it simply works right out of the box. This is the darkest year.

Year Five -- You start to reminisce about the glory days of a brand new PC; tweaking graphical settings, modding the living crap out of your games. This is probably the year a Bethesda game like Elder Scrolls or Fallout releases, and when you realize your PC is going to relegate this new game to that of a ps2 release, you begin to save, research, and eventually talk yourself into upgrading or even building a brand new gaming computer. This year is a later, rinse, repeat of year one. And everything is glorious.

@MBirdy88: In all reality, only developers themselves know how difficult or not difficult a particular platform is to develop for, and it's something we'll most likely never know the true answer to.

@LostProphetFLCL: @Gaming-Planet: His filming was basically done. He had a week left on Mocking Jay 2, which I'm assuming means they'll change up part of the script to make it work the best they can. Unfortunately, that means some of the petty fans of the book are going to complain about it not being 100% accurate.

The gist of life is -- If something doesn't affect you directly, you have no business having an opinion on it.