Why do gamers dump on systems? Xbox 360, Sony PS3 & Nintendo Wii
Filed under: Gaming, Nintendo Wii, Sony Playstation 3, Xbox 360 | By: Daniel
Posted on: July 23, 2008 | 47 Comments
We see it all the time, whenever some news is reported on Product Reviews, N4G, Digg, Game Trailers and other sites; gamers have to run each games console down.
Why do some gamers have to dump on systems? The Xbox 360 has its advantages over the Sony PS3 and also the other way round; the Nintendo Wii makes up in gameplay what it lacks in graphics.
We can understand why some people will hate a certain system, I personally had RROD on my Xbox 360 and although that was a downer, you cannot knock how good Microsoft’s software, in game chat and other cool features are.
Why do you think we see gamers compelled to run down another games system that they may have not even owned?
Just looking at a post yesterday about a guy called Chris who CLAIMED to have worked on the first Xbox 360 prototype and has now switched to the Sony PS3, while this is a rumor about why RROD may have happened, the comments were taken over by console bashing.
It’s getting much more common today for this type of console bashing to happen between gamers, lets try and keep things more clean from now on. Have you had enough of people just running down consoles for the fun of it?
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It is both human nature, My dad can beat up your dad, but it is really the websites that feed it, the websites are driven to get ad revenue, so they have to get mouse clicks, what they have found is that if they can bait a few users into starting a flame war, they will get many people to join in, which generates more add revenue for the web site. if you read many of the articles, you will see they are not some un baised peice, they nearly always through in something to try to start a flame war.
This isn’t news, this is Daniel crying about people name-calling his favorite systems. Save this crap for personal blog type posting, this is not news. Daniel, you little sissy.
The fact is that all consoles suck!!!!!!!!!! PC gaming is the only true gaming.
It’s only the Xbox owners dumping on PS3 really. I think because they wished they had waited, and not jumped on the first console to come along.
It all boils down to money, and the resolution of cognitive dissonance. One of the ways that people justify spending money (in this case, several hundred dollars) on a purchase is by rationalizing that their product is the best possible product. By knocking the other consoles, you make yourself feel better and satisfied with your own purchase. Also, gamers tend to be a competitive crowd, so this phenomenon is heightened by the competitiveness of the group. My last observation is that the people with the least popular, most expensive product (PS3) seem to be the most vicious group and the Wii owners seem to not really care all that much about flaming others. These are just one person’s opinions.
my mind is dumber now that I read this
I personally own all three systems and I play and buy games for all of them, Oh yeh I play PC games too, They all have their plusses and minuses, PS3 has GOW 3 comin out, MGS4:GOP , XBOX has GOW2 and on and on. There all awesome. Especially considering that i used to play games on colleco, and commodore 64, so I am thrilled at how far video games have come along. Look out for the PC comeback with Diablo 3 though : p Xbox and pS3 should be trying to get that to work on the consoles. How awesome would it be if they could work together for a change to bring pc 360 and ps3 together online with 1 game. that would be a massive community. Its easier to get along than to push along
They run them down for the exact same reason that people run down opposing sports teams. In this case, the sport is Console War, and the teams are Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo, but fan loyalty, fervor, and irrationality are no different than for any other sport.
It may have something to do with the fact that a lot of kids can’t afford to own more than one, so they *have* to choose sides. After a few months of increasingly hyperbolic forum discussion, they’ve convinced themselves that the other consoles are complete garbage and that they made the *only* reasonable choice.
M$ sodware sucks major ass,windows crashes,360 software crashes any software of M$ crashes because M$ copied apple long time ago and M$ copied playstation 1 and 2 with the dvd and online games.
ps2 was the first system to have online games.
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if your one of does rich people that pay 3000 every yr to upgrade the PC,but i can play my ps3 for 6 yrs and get a new ps4 that will kick PCs asses egain.
right know PC and ps3 are in the same level,soon PC will surpass but ps3 will still get the exclusives.