| Joelcool7 said: Recently on the Nintendo N-Sider forums I confronted a N-Sider who claimed that fanboy's were the downfall of Nintendo. So I've come here to talk about it in a more intellectual manner! As well as talk about fanboys in general on all platform's not exclusive to Nintendo's platforms. A fanboy is somebody who is not only loyal to a specific company but narrow mindedly supports that single company in any and all situations. A fanboy cannot be reasoned with and blindly supports his or her specific company only. In some cases fanboys have been known even to boycott third party titles on their companies platform! A Loyalist is a gamer who remains open minded enjoying all games but sticks to a single platform loyaly prefering that companies titles and hardware to any of the other companies. Loyalism is the loyalty to a single brand. A Loyalist however can often be talked toand will often support htird parties and first parties. A loyalists Ideology is often why buy a second platform when I can use that money to buy jmore of the games on my existing platform. I'm happy with (Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo) why would I want to go buy the other companies hardware. Now that being said do loyalists/fanboy's hurt third party sales, which consoles are most affected by Fanboy's and are they affected in a positive or negative manor? |
IMO:
1)MULTI
people that play ALL games on ALL consoles,they often are early adopters.,and retro gamers.
they often think they are "super gamers" because they play ALL consoles...
stupid ones...they are racist in a way....
2) FAKE MULTI
people that believe they are "super gamers" because they have a ps2 and a x360...
often casual gamers that believe they are multi with 2 consoles and noobing on forums...
3)FANBOY(console)
like ultra' in soccer,they buy only one console and bash others...ignorant ones
4)FANBOY(game)
ex. my brother is an old Squaresoft fan, he plays FF on ps1/2,GC,DS,GBA,NES,SNES ect...
they are console agnostic ,usually play on nintendo/sony/ms,but they have a favorite console.
5)CORE FAN
no it's not a cpu fan....ehehehe
people that usually know very well other console but make a choice on the one they prefer....
ex. i'm a nintendian,but I finished ff8...
usually they bash third parties for not porting games...
in the end...
I like nintendo consoles they are the best...
but i can't play FF series on a nintendo console because of a third party called SQUARE-ENIX...
so if i want to play a FF game I have to buy another console...
it's that right???
no!!
people are forced by third parties policy to buy other consoles that maybe they don't want...
another example:
if I wat to play PES I have to buy an x360 or a ps2...
is that right???
I play it on pc...stupid konami...
if they port pes on wii I will buy it on console...
I remeber in snes era that if wat i could play mortal Kombat both on snes and on MD...
the market was solid,and the only difference was mario vs sonic...
yes ex-squaresoft stay on snes side,but they always stay with larger user base console... ex.now DQ9 on ds...
so in the end it's not fault of "fanboys" but of third parties policy...
Nintendo proved them that they can win with a dog simulation and a brain test on an "old" cartridge...
console...
poeple don't need a crappy portable disc media player to play GAMES...
