Fanboyish behavior exist all the way up into top echelon of game devs. Like the guy who made Heavy Rain and the fired dev who bashed the Wii U and its version of Darksiders saying he's glad he didn't have to work on it. You have other situations of devs only releases on certain platforms out of fanboyish fervor.

Then there are fanboy reviewers who give bad reviews to good games which people read and decide not to buy.

It has more of an impact on the industry than most people are willing to admit.

I read up until the conversation between the unknown friend. Then I got bored and decided to masturbate. Not really a compelling read, to be honest.

This website is filled with fanboys for one and yes it's annoying. This was poorly written though. You say everything from sony's conference was good but somehow it was bad? That makes no sense. Then you continue to rant for another hour to get your point across but you continue to only talk about Sony? Do you even play other consoles? As far as Super Smash Bros and Playstation Allstars goes it is a blatant ripoff just like move was to the wiimote. The thing about it is yes you have motion controls on the ps3 now but nobody cares because the lack of games. Motion controls dont work well with games. Playstation allstars as theyve shown so far looks pretty bad compared to Super Smash Bros so far so I do understand why people are complaining about it. The whole game is based off of supers which is dumb. They also dont have that many likeable characters so they're going with a lot of third party characters. Everybody copies each other to a degree though, but some things you've mentioned doesn't make any sense either. And in all defense Sony had the best conference out of the big 3 this year because all 3 kind of sucked.

btw you are looking into this way to much btw. Theyre just annoying, nothing more. They will support there brand and buy whatever they throw out so that helps out the industry in a way. Just dont argue with someone who is.

While not the biggest issue or an easy one to fix it is very impactful. Consumer opinion can effect sales dramatically, it doesn't matter whether the information is true or not. People can be manipulated rather easily especially when promoting negatives about something since we are wired to accept news of something being bad or to stay away from rather than something good. It's a survival instinct. You are far more likely to remember or change your behavior if you are told something is bad or harmful. You can right it off as only mattering on the internet but that is not true since everyone on the internet is a real person and if anything the internet is a far more powerful tool of manipulation than we have ever had in human history. We have started wars through word of mouth and print, the internet is communication on crack. If I put forth a concentrated effort using some time and a bit of money I could negatively impact a product's sales.

This article might be hypocritical at the start but the rest of it has value. The hatred has caused two rough console launches already, 3DS and Vita, next could be the Wii U if its "opponents" drag it through the mud enough.

Fanboys can be ignored. Bad sales/marketing/economy don't.

Fanboys are endemic to any community. People just like to argue about pointless shit, that is the nature of things, supposedly dating back to Classical Greece when folks with nothing better to do would debate trivial things like whether Homer really existed.

Or for more fun, step into any Harry Potter community, say that you loved Deathly Hallows' epilogue scene, and you have instant fun.

Honestly I think fanboy-ism was worse/more intense during the SNES/Genesis or PS1/N64/DC days.

Today many people own multiple consoles. I know plenty of people who have all three actually.

In the SNES/Genesis days it was like US/West vs. Russia/East, lol, it was like a whole different world. And all the sniping was even right in the advertising "Sega Does What Nintendon't", Nintendo ribbing the 32X in their DKC ads, etc. etc.

Back in those days it was more personal, because gamers were mostly in their adolescent/teenage years where they could only afford one console as mommy/daddy would be buying it for them, so once you picked your side that was it, lol. You made your choice and now had to defend it to death.

Also the original article is fanboy-ish in itself. The author is ripping Sony's E3 presentation rather than "focusing on the games" (of which Sony showed plenty) and trying to convince his friend the Vita is doomed. I mean c'mon.

Maybe he should take his own advice. Anyone else see the irony in him arguing against "fanboy-ism" when he then proceeds to shoot down his friend for enjoying Sony's E3 event? What's wrong with his friend being excited about Last of Us, God of War, Beyond, Playstation All-Stars Battle, or (gasp!) even Wonderbook (getting something exclusive from J.K. Rowling is pretty noteworthy)? 

How many platform holders are giving their platform this level of support in year six? Nintendo sure as hell isn't with Wii, and Microsoft isn't with the 360. 

I love gaming full stop, and will game on any platform if the game is good.However if i was asked for my prefered platform i would say Nintendo, because they offer me what i want the most in gaming. Which brings me to the Wii, i love the Wii...but for some reason especially this gen, the lead platform has had a right good kicking from the internet trolls. It is really infuriating when i look up game info or trailers regarding the Wii etc,because you just get nothing but Wii haters clogging up the commments section offering nothing constructive except commments like "Wii is gay, Wii is for retards, Wii is kiddy, is that Playstaton 1 graphics" etc etc. This has kind of spoiled this gen for me as i think fanboys are becoming akin to football fans where their love for their prefered console is becoming somewhat tribal, and they start insulting the competition.

Fanboys don't really matter to me, I just ignore them, besides companies and game developers don't really care about them