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Don’t think of “argument” meaning a statement in support of something. Think of it as a synonym for “debate”.

“There’s no debate” as in “it’s so obvious, there’s no one on the other side debating that it is not true”

It was intentionally negative — Evans is the guy discovering the smaller heatsink; not Sony PR.

The full quote is “I don’t think there’s any argument that this is a worse console, at least for thermals and for cooling,” says Evans. “As far as I’m concerned I’d rather have a launch PS5.”

The guys from gamersnexus say measuring exhaust temperature is not enough to call this worse. So Austin Evans is probably reaching.

Edit: wrote his name wrong.

Ambiguous and indirect double-negative

It is ambiguous, but it means that this is obviously true and there's no argument about it.

It's arguably an ambiguous statement.