| Jumpin said: It comes from a nationalist mentality. Essentially people think they have to hate everything that is not what they have. These people will dig up every possible reason they can, and just continue to hate for the purpose of hating. On another point, I don't buy this "hardcore" bs. How can a videogame or videogamer be "hardcore"? To me the whole thing sounds like a euphamistic debate for some sort of social problem for the so-called "hardcore gamer" and a term used to arbitrarilly elevate the status of a game. |
I think its fair to say that this mentality comes from a combination of marketing and press. The types of products where you see this user base rivalry invariably have at least one of the competitors constantly trying to sell their product as a lifestyle, and whenever the media talks about the industry will boil it down to being a war (console war, cola war, etc). When I think of my childhood and how many times I heard or spoke vial words about someone based on their prefrence in soft drink, I can't help but feel the haters of consoles are pretty tame. (never mind car brands or the worst of the worst - sports teams)
As for the term "hardcore" it was a marketing term that has been adopted by those who would rather not be called "video game nerds" (or worse). The term has since been beaten to death because those who want to be called it (or play games labelled as it) could not possibly create a more realistic term without deflating their own egos.
