| HappySqurriel said: I think a lot of the anger that people have is based upon their own definition of what a generation is and what it means to be in a different generation ... |
In creating this system, and choosing to use the same terminology that the existing system uses, it had to be a foregone conclusion that you would generate the reaction that you did.
Ever since the the fifth gen starting peaking over the horizen and it became obvious that all the major players would henceforth be regularily releasing new systems gamers have been emotional about the whole cycle. This has just gotten worse over time as the internet has become more and more intimately tied to our gaming. (I mean more in terms of websites/forums/gamenews/previews/etc, not in the actual games themselves) Now we start getting regular announcements about new systems years before they hit retail. We see flamewars about systems that don't even exist yet.
There are a lot of gamers who desparately want to have the cutting edge console. In creating the system that you did - which I will agree has a certain logic to it - while borrowing the lexicon of the existing generation system, you are, in their minds, insulting many gamers; they take so much pride in owning a gen 7 console that they don't want the wii included because it taints what gen 7 is, now you come along and say that the wii not a gen lower than their console, but one higher, and you have all the makings of a flamewar.
That many of those who have been flaming you haven't taken the time to understand your system (see all the posts about motion controls), is completely expected. To them gen x is always better than gen x-1. To them, the only possible justification for your OP was that you are a fanboy trying to turn the whole wii is gen 6 argument on it head; and telling them they have a system that is anything but the best is insulting to them.
