Why NOW Is The Time To Abandon Ship On The Wii

[MontanaHatchet]

Khuutra said:

MontanaHatchet said:
The reason no winning console has ever been hated so much is because the runner up consoles have never been as popular or loved so much. This race is definitely tighter than previous ones. And besides, people are so quick to forget the massive amount of hate that the Playstation 1 received from bitter fanboys.

But no, it's because Nintendo "CHANGED TEH EVERYTINGZ!!!"

The NES was hated about this much by the hardcore gamers of the age, for many of the same reasons, primarily the rejection of old gaming values in favor of new ones.

It's a lot less to do with console-specific fanboyism and everything to do with a very real fear of the marginalization of current gaming values.

The NES was hated by the "hardcore" gamers of the 3rd generation, to the same degree as the Wii? That doesn't make any sense. So were the hardcore gamers desperately clinging to the Master System and/or Atari 7800, or did they just refuse to buy this new and incredibly innovative NES? Super Mario Brothers? What kind of sorcery is this?

A fear of "change" is definitely part of it, but most of it is just a preference for the less popular systems, and in turn, hate for the most popular one. The Playstation, contrary to belief at that time, was not very innovative. Yet it was widely hated by Nintendo and Sega fans, bitter that it was the highest selling and most popular console.

It's a combination of both, so we can't be so black and white.