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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OMEN - ” PS2 was the first system to have online games ”
No it wasn’t, the Sega Dreamcast had online gaming before PS2 even came out. Xbox had an established system before Sony went online as well.
Lets all quit the platforms and make it real. HALO4 …halftime at the next superbowl. Bring your own weapons and ammo.
A glib one word answer for this airhead question. Laziness.
It is far easier to run something or someone down or trivialize an issue with a one word or sharp biting comment then it is to actually take the time to look at someone or something and do the necessary thinking to make an honest, and informed decision or comment.
Video gamers as a group could also be considered the first and the last generation to be truly raised by a visual technological medium as a choice. The author, Jerry Mander, in his book, “In the Absence of the Sacred” delves into this matter some. Our perception of reality is skewed from cradle to grave by this medium. In his book, he has a little test. He says to watch anything on TV and count the number of times that what you are seeing could not actually happen in reality. ‘present day metrocity on a sidewalk, busy traffic, cut to scene on cruise ship from 4 weeks prior, back to present day metrocity sidewalk, cut to internal thoughts from that morning in the kitchen’. That is the way our brains work. Problem is, we need to get the majority of our data in a contigious, experiential mode to maintain a semblence of normality. We don’t. The gamers, and it really isn’t fair to the gamers, it is all of us. Me you, that guy over there, that girl on the cellphone, the guy getting into the taxi, all of us are trying to to make reality conform with our skewed perception of reality. I love that scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds”, but you really need to have seen it in a theater. There was that scene where birds came flying up from behind the left of the subject and as the shadows were passing over the ground, the whole theater as one, ducked their heads to the right. I would have loved to have interviewed people as they exited the theater, asking them if they thought there were actual birds in the theater, they would say no, of course not, that’s crazy. Then show em a video of their reaction in the theater during that scene and tell them, “well a very old and very primal part of your brain sure as hec thought there were birds.”
A better answer for the original question would be.
That it is a defense mechanism, based on a perceived reality that allows us to interact and communicate with others while still staying comfortable in our own skins.
Wayne
Usually the article is biased to begin with. Gamers get worked up over that and feel their comments will balance things out. Although their comments usually end up being biased themselves.
@OMEN & tgrass21
Sega was the first video game console company to offer first-party online support with a modem for the Saturn through Sega NetLink. Catapult Entertainment’s XBAND modem for the SNES and Genesis pre-dated this, however it was third-party and only offered game-to-game play, no internet.
Like someone commented, there has to be a competition or else it would be like living in a world where only good existed. But the funny part is that this competition is not beneficial to anyone except the people who great the games. They get their money and they work hard to compete with others. What do you get for saying things like “oh xbox 360 games have better graphics than ps3 games” etc. NOTHING!!!!! its not going to get you anywhere except sitting your lazy ass at home and playing video games to find differences that only matter a little.
Billy Shears - I never said Dreamcast was first either. I said it had online gaming before PS2.
omen
no i am not one of those people that spends $3000 every year to upgrade my pc. I am not rich either. A lot of people don’t realize that you don’t have to spend much money to upgrade a pc. I only spent 800 to make my pc this past december with all the best parts out there including a monitor. you just have to know how to shop. I also will not have to upgrade my pc to play any games that will come out in the near future since my pc will be able to play all of them on max settings. I do love the PS3, however when it comes to fps pc will always be king because the controls are so much smoother to play with. If they ever make a way for pc, 360, and ps3 gamers to play against each other, and i hope they do, 360 and ps3 gamers will not stand a chance agains pc gamers at least for fps games simply for the fact that the controls are much smoother on pc and it is much easier to react with a mouse than a dpad, or analog stick.
In reality both consoles are good, but playstation is harder to develop for and some developers are saying that the graphics processor on the 360 is far better to work with because it can handle more (just because ps3 has more graphics memory doesnt mean anything. memory isnt everything)
Read this link:
http://www.hardcoreware.net/reviews/review-348-1.htm
It is a developers opinion and probably the reason why playstation 3 is loosing exclusives.
Also Microsoft have a much better development suite (Visual Studio has been in use for quite some time now for PC games and is much more refined and XNA). Also it allows developers to port PC games to 360 without many changes been made to the source code.
Not that the xbox is without its problems. It obviously has not been thought through - overheating problems suggest this. I have had RRoD and I can tell u it annoyed me alot. But the live service and now cheap price for a new console are enough for me.
The only reason i dont have a PS3 is because of the lack of games, and the crap online service. and blu-ray just doesnt sell it for me. Its going to be hard going for the laser if i play games and watch movies on it. For me it is a far better console on paper, but specs mean nothing without games. I personally dont like my xbox 360 as much as my old Sega Megadrive. Now that machine had none of this RRoD, or overheating and had some great games.
Totally agree with the article, fanboys on both sides are guilty of incredibly tedious console bashing and it’s very wearing for those of us who are cruising the forums looking for simple information (or even, dare I say, balanced opinion).
One reason the problem is so bad is that gamers as a group tend to use more declarative sentences than the overall population (on account of being young, male, highly educated, etc), and generally don’t realize that a lot of the nuance of their communication (how much they’re joking, etc) is lost in text. Of course, they try and lighten things up with smileys and ‘lol’ and stuff, but not all smiles are created equal, and laughs vcan be giggles or cackles or just plain old Mad Evil. It’s easy to interpret stuff as far more aggressive than it’s originally intended. When you get two people both reading more aggression into the other’s statements, then the conversation rapidly spirals into a slanging match. and that’s kind of set the tone for gaming conversations. Sad, really.
I have all three consoles, the point of this is get the best out of three of them. Halo3 (360) MGS(PS3) Mario Kart (Wii). They are all great games, all consoles have downsides. All are different! All great in different ways.
I personally like the 360 more than the other consoles, nothing right now beats xbox live. When home is released we will have to compare, but thats when its released!! 360 is great, ppl that dont own it should try it, and see how good it is.
Ps3 is great also, but still no way near the 360, i know in the long run it will be better but not now!!!
My advice buy the three consoles and get best out of them!!