| 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.
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Actually I have heard about that simmilarities from the 80's to nowadays and I have found that it is true.
I was very young when the NES appeared so I can't remember exactly. But I do remember that I had a cousin who was a big Atari2600 fan. Then time passed and he bought a Commodore 64. He didn't wanted to buy a NES. He didn't bought it until his mother played it and wanted one. He prefered to play in his C64 until the late 80's when he bought Zelda II and SMB3 and lately he sold his C64.
I think it has a lot of simmilarities with today. Many gamers hate the Wii but they buy them for their wifes/moms/dads/children. But in the end, they will be playing with it. ;)
