Glad they walked it back. Truly uncalled for. Every player needs to pick the card that's going to play their killer app best. If I was going mainly play Dirt 5 AMD looks better, Control and Cyberpunk (atm) go with Nvidia, etc.
Each reviewer having their own test methodology and conclusion is the best way to have an informed decision.
The problem I have (and many others in his audience, you know the ones the guys referring to) have called Steve out for OBVIOUS bias testing choices that's lean HEAVILY on making ray tracing less important, impactful, and detrimental to AMD.
He specifically tests the game that have the least visual impact as well as bring smds wesker performance in the area to front stage.
He calls its a waste of time and plays it down CONSTANTLY while also mentioning off hand how he's playing watch dogs at home with a 3090 with ray tracing.... Admitting how good it can look (but never using something like it in his general ray tracing testing) he has chosen to be a hypocrite because he wants to keep an certain audience happy but also actually have access to next gen gaming.
He goes as far to test the red devil oc lc with a Massive overclock and brag about is oc whole ONLY testing it against STOCK 3080/3090.
His enitre testing methodology is skewed while he can play victim here he has obviously shown this bias enough that not only myself but enough of his commentors have raised the concern and Nvidia noticed that as well.
Steve used the opportunity to use his peers fear of financial or creative impact to get them behind him (sending Linus only cherry picked clips or benchmark slides) instead of them having watched him for YEARS like many of us who have watched him constantly do his best to spin his biggest audiences views as the best choice.
Hes in it for his benefit (like anyone really) but unlike Steve from GN who will tell his highly AMD leaning audience that they are in fact WRONG sometimes and point out where AMD gets its a## kicked without a second thought.
Steve for HUB on the other hand is happy to placate that same audience and make sure keep them happy is his primary goal.
If this wasn't his goal then his work would more closely resemble the unbiased reviews of someone like GN.
It's not Steves job to decide what is or isn't "better" or "more important" it's his job to test products for what they offer and provide an objective view and information with it ultimately up to you to decide based on the provided information what's most important to you.
When he cherry picks like he does he shapes a view for his audience and therefor isn't being objective at all.
I had an actual conversation with HUB themselves weeks ago about this and their arrogance in replying to my concerns with statements like "huh?" (as if they misheard my WRITTEN words) and basically ignoring what I said.
I told them then I was done with their content and more people would likely start to see it with how blatant they had become with their bias I un-subbed and planned to move on but even quicker than I figured it would it blew up as I predicted.
Steve got his way as he went to the fellow peers and used the "bros before h**s" defense to get them to back him without ACTUALLY spending any real time analyzing whether he was or was not doing a proper objective review process.
At the end of the day they all only care about one thing and that's their own success and letting one of their own get harmed like this would only potentially lead to more of it elsewhere and maybe even eventually to themselves.
I don't think anyone should be strong-arming anyone but the same goes for HUB and I'm sorry there reviews are biased and they do their best to "strong-arm" people's views towards the way THEY think they should see things (which ultimately is just the way they feel they'll see the best interactions from the majority of their viewers).
Like I said Steve with GN also has an audience that leans this way as well but unlike HUB he will just present things as they are even when they make amd look pretty bad. And even tell his audience that they are absolutely wrong.
