I'd say some of it is purchase validation. People may only buy one console and go out of their way to defend it, some going as far as spreading FUD about the competition. To these people the idea that they may have bought the wrong console is unfathomable.
People wanting Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft to actually fail completely and close up are really just the extreme fanboys. They see their given choice as the only right or reasonable one, and any other choice is idiotic. These people love their particular company so much they'd like to see others pushed out so that the only option that remained was the one they deemed acceptable. These people may spin it differently, but they want to force people into their way of thinking and may be so butthurt that they want a certain company to close out of spite.
The abundance of sales discussion this generation (and obviously on this site) seem to make people forget that we all enjoy video games. Just from reading this site, you see how people rationalize anti-consumer implementations time and time again like they're viral marketers or stockholders rather than video game enthusiasts. I wish people would stop for a second and try to remember why they started playing games in the first place, instead of the mindless sales induced circle-jerking and partisanship that I see here all the time.
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