Who do you think is the number 1 fanboy of each Next Gen Console in vghart?

[jalsonmi]

BCNR34 said:

 

oh i'm unquestionably a fanboy, but i at least have the sense to admit it unlike starcraft. i'm not really pro-sony though, much more anti-microsoft and anti-nintendo

you thought you had me nailed didnt you? ;)

Don't you see how fucking absurd that is? Why in gods name is it worth it to be "anti" a console manufacturer? Did they murder you parents or something, leaving you sowrn to a blood oath that you would bad mouth them on forums from here to eternity (That'll show 'em...)? Why can't you simply be happy with the console you have, and why in gods name would you spend more energy bad mouthing the other ones than enjoying what you have? What are you, 12? The mind boggles.

Dodece:

There may be more Nintendo fanboys (I don't think so. Maybe more Nintendo fans, but not fanboys), but none get to the obnoxious levels of BCNR34, kingofwale or leoj. I see very few Nontendo fanboys make such a habit of trolling against the other consoles the way they do. Thery instead go the sane route (like, I will admit, is true of most PS3 fanboys as well, just not those guys) of talking up their console and the games found therein.

Maybe this is just because since Wii is in the lead this generation they don't feel the need, and would lash out much more if they had a trailing sales console (though again, I don't see why people have to take the market position of their console so personally). Maybe the whole thing is an example of the decline of modern discourse. They come from a supposed position of weakness (that the console is not in the lead, even though it's doing just fine) and so mimic political attack ads, impotently imagining that doing so affect change in people's perspectives the way attack ads can do in a political campaign; thus they are engineering the rise of the PS3 and the return of Sony to dominance. Of course, the opinion of a few guys on an internet forum doesn't have the effect a television attack ad does, but that is the level of discourse they see in society, and as such that is the type of discourse they internalize and impliment in such a situation. It's absurd.

LIGHTEN UP GUYS! If the PS3 doesn't win this generation, it doesn't mean you yourself are a lesser person for enjoying the console. I enjoyed the N64 just fine (at an age pretty close to leoj's current one) without having the need to curse the Playstation for doing better despite being a technically inferior system (well, I did curse it for taking Final Fantasy away from me and having the only sequel to Chrono Trigger, but that's a different, if related, issue).