Aielyn said:
Fanboys will be fanboys, but most Nintendo fans didn't celebrate Sony's troubles, they just heavily mocked those Sony fans who insisted on going "Wii is a last-gen console, PS3 is winning the next-gen console race" even as MS outsold them handily at the time (and who parrotted Sony's line of "rumble interferes with the motion sensors" for why they didn't have rumble in their controller even as the Wii's rumble worked perfectly with its motion sensors), and those MS fans who insisted that the red ring problem was just a couple of isolated incidents and that Wii was a fad that would be over within 6 months even as it kept selling two years later. Need I remind you that, even throughout the life of the Wii, Nintendo fans were mocked for having "teh cazualz system", "no good games", etc? Do you recall all of those Sony fans that mocked the Wii for having "waggle controls", only to then praise Sony for PS Move? Do you recall all of those MS fans that mocked Wii for requiring you to stand up to play it (which was nonsense in 95% of cases) but then praised MS for Kinect? In fact, even at the height of the Wii's success, in mid-2008, Sony and MS fans insisted that Nintendo needed to go third-party, and that otherwise they were doomed. Now, beyond the occasional (and inappropriate) mockery of Sony's financial situation in the last few years, Nintendo fans (not fanboys) haven't generally enjoyed weak performance of the other console-makers. Instead, they spend most of their time talking up Nintendo and challenging those who make absurd and anti-fanboyish assertions regarding Nintendo. Even the creator of this thread didn't actually attack the other console makers. What they did was focus entirely on Nintendo's current circumstances, and challenging the idea that Nintendo is doomed. Now, I wouldn't have taken the approach used by snyps, but I completely appreciate his motivation. And you'll notice that he's no fanboy - his game collection includes Wii U, PC, PS3, 3DS, DS, GB, GBA, PSP, Wii, Xbox 360, PS2, Gamecube, Xbox, Dreamcast, N64, SNES, and NES. And yet, even the suggestion that Nintendo is doing OK overall evokes words like "delusional" from some people here on VGChartz. Something to think about - people on VGChartz keep including the point that Nintendo revised down their 3DS forecast for the current financial year by about 5 million (it's actually 4.5 million)... never mind that the new forecast is almost identical to what the 3DS sold in the last fiscal year, and never mind that their 3DS software sales are projected to, even after the downgrade, be 33% higher than the previous year. These facts get completely ignored in order for people to shout "Nintendo is doomed" from the rooftops. |
Thanks for the recount of the 7th gen. That seems pretty even and kinda balanced. I expect some ppl to be that way, and I expect Nintendo fans had to defend things from gamecube days on back to snes from the self proclaimed "mature" gamers. I don't see why it always has to be an attack. A retaliation is the only attack I understand. But a retaliation can go back and forth so long no one knows who started it. After a while one side see's the fruitlessness of the fight but the other side keeps going and going and going. Why?
I'm glad you saw my game list, unfortunately I've become a raging fanboy in the last 12 months. I came here with open arms but the amount of Venom used against Nintendo has entrenched me in a closed off position. I read a study once that said ppl fighting online never changes opinions, it only further entrenches them in their original ideas. I don't think I'll ever be a multi system owner again. And I agree my approach is flawed.. i'm glad some understand my motivation. I don't have the gift of oratory. I fail at the strategy of a convincing argument. But my assertiveness keeps me from bottling up, I'm happy with that.
On 3DS i notice it's not touted like it should. Why is Nintendo doomed and not Sony? Both have a system on top of the charts and on on the lower end. Their is a land slide of spin.
