I have no animosity toward any company, but I believe that companies should probably fail if they don't have the competence to continue working, aren't working well enough to adjust to the times or are basically obsolete when it comes to the reality of the marketplace. I am not a 'Laissez Faire' type, anything but, but life support cannot be maintained forever on corporations that cannot come back to the forefront. Innovate, adjust or die, is what it amounts to.

It sucks for the people who work there, sure, but the evolution of a always growing and changing marketplace is more or less the only deciding factor. If they can't sail the treacherous waters, they should probably go back to shore. If a company tanks, then that's their own fault.

Sales2099 used the Sports analogy before, but it doesn't really hold weight.

Fans of gaming are nothing like fans of sports. The entire purpose of sports is to have one particular team be victorious. And in sports, a team's victory is entirely dependent upon another team's loss. It's not possible for two teams to win in the same competition. Therefore, it would be pretty difficult for a person to root for two different teams when competiting. If you identify yourself as an X fan, you're going to inherently want the Y team to fail as they could prevent X team from maximum success.

The opposite is true for gaming fans, at least most of us. It is quite possible for multiple companies in the gaming industries to be successful. There does not need to be a loser to allow for another company's success. I sports, success is dependent upon how much better you are than the other teams. In the gaming industry, success doesn't have to be doing-better-than-the-other-company. In order for one console to succeed, the other console does not need to lose or fail. 

Well, the game is still great to play, it's just those god awful FMVs.

I hope you enjoy it.

I do believe that historically Sony fans have been much more vocal about the superiority of the brand they preferred, and very ennerving it was for two long generations (PS1 and PS2), and that trends finally began fizzling out just lately with the relatively low performance of the PS3 sales (esp. at launch) and now of the Vita. So yeah, it makes me happy when the people who spoke so loud against Nintendo for so long get something coming to them. It also makes me happy when an industry that was led by Nintendo turns to Sony and all the media and buzz is around Sony and bashing Nintendo, it would make one happy when all that is squashed, as one's had their excitement equally squashed.

Having said that, the minority of PS fans that I like have either changed with time to be better and more balanced people, or the bad ones have just left, leaving us with a much better harmony between the camps in general. Also, Sony's dedication to game content and compelling gaming experiences makes me want them to persist through time with no bounds. It's like the pole opposite emotion.

So when it comes to my nemesis console (the Playstation), I am bipolar. Just kidding. But to be honest, most of my feelings of resentment that stemmed from the breakup of Nintendo and Square, and many other J-companies back in the N64 days is coming to an end. I just hope no camp returns to that kind of attitude, and the fire is quelled once and for all.

It is irritating when people openly deny the facts in front of them. Your company is tanking by comparison, you have less games, less 70-90+ metacritic games, last place in sales, yet you act superior to everyone else. That kind of mentality disgusts me. I wish that people see what happens in the real world and act accordingly on the internet, or at least be more humbled.

I am not a Nintendo fan. Nintendo fans are good in my book because they do not have that smugness, despite winning the gen.

I am a Xbox fan with my own biases. Very perceptive. But putting Sony fans in their place benfits everyone, not just my camp. And obviously, my camp is the target of the Sony smugness and venom.

You openly deny that Sony fans arent the majority on the gaming internet then you have no business with threads like these. You adopt the were all equal approach, openly ignoring the trends. You dont have to look far beyond me to find people openly say how forums like N4G are infested by that crowd.

Honestly though, the only company I enjoy seeing failing is Sony. The reason being that they are direct competitors with MS, and therefore if they're failing it means MS is winning. If Sony died then the 720 would sell a lot more and have no competition and turn out like the PS2 did (domination), and exclusives like Halo etc. would subsequently sell a lot more.

Also, the way I see it, Sony had their chance to dominate the console market and they blew it. Therefore, I don't think they should have the right to give it another chance giving that they blew it the last time. Survival of the fittest and all that

You are right in the sense that if Sony loses every game, so to speak, that they would be out of the gaming business.  I personally would not like to see that happen.  There is the sports mentality though of me wishing to see Nintendo come out on top, but too be honest I love gaming and if Sony were to be gone it give Nintendo and Microsoft less of a reason to innovate.  Man, do I hate the Miami Heat.  Lebron James pisses me off.  I wish all three to do well enough to exist.  So with that; I suppose that I do cheer a bit from the sidelines, but don't wish that any of them to wind up like Sega.  So I don't feel that the sports analogy is 100% incorrect.    

But is it worth becoming the monster that you hate? Your impulses have overtaken you on many occasions and you are no longer any different than the fanatics you despise. You might think it above you, justify that it is reactionary to the harshness of blinded fans, in a way it is, but what seperates taking shots at RRoD and taking shots at a fanatic user base. There is a fine line between consumer opinion and fanatasism. Do you know where the lines blur? Is there a saftey net for that tight rope? We pray one day that the hate will escape you and for your return to humanity.

*cough* and buy a PS3 *cough* 

Did you hear something? Could of sworn I heard some kind bird or a dog or something. Anyway, cheers!

Surely, I can't be the only one who orders a celebratory pizza each time bad Sony news pops up?

At bolded: you're talking about things that occured over six years ago. It's not even possible to 'get even' with those specific people. It makes one wonder: how long do you resent people for something that happened so long ago by a group of people who don't even see anymore?

As for Sony fans being the most vocal, I don't think that's the case today (or since 2006, for that matter). There's nothing inherent about any specific fanbase that makes them the most vocal. The vocalness of a fanbase seems to mirror the success or apparent success of the fanbase's favorite company. For example, with the 3DS and the Wii U coming soon, Nintendo fans are the most vocal imo.