| MontanaHatchet said:
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. |
Hardcore gamers at the time weren't console gamers, so to speak. "You can do so many more things with a computer!" they cried, appalled at the simplicity of a game like Super Mario Bros. where you run to one side and jump.
Yes, our hardcore grew from their casual.
I certainly agree that console fanboyism plays its part, but the part it plays is very small in the more rational crowd. Fear of change is at least justifiable; console fanboyism is, at its best, silly.
