| psrock said: What are those values that makes a Nintedo fans so different than everybody else, what laws exist that somehow it is a crime to ever critcize Nntendo, I just want to know. |
Mind you I am guessing blind because you don't actually want to stand behind your opinion. There are 2 possible reasons for that, but we will ignore that for now.
Criticizing them is no more difficult that anyone else. The problem is what people harp on. They go on about the online service, but your average internet gamer was more than informed to know the score on that one pre-purchase. Same applies to the HD graphics. Then you have the dearth of complaints about not enough core titles, but the lack of them means the people who truly value those games won't be Wii only owners. I could claim the same about the vast majority of the cookie cutter complaints against the system.
Beyond that you are unfairly characterizing the behavior as unique to one console's fanbase. I cannot tell you the number of conversations I have had where people refused to believe I don't like online gaming, or that HD graphics really don't register for me. Hell I made a thread when I was about to buy a 360 trying to understand the hatred against the Arcade model. What I got was people telling me that I would need the features I didn't care about over and over despite clearly stating I didn't care.
This swings the other was as well naturally. Some people dislike local multiplayer with a bunch of friends, or despise motion controls. They are on the opposite end of the spectrum from me with people insisting they cannot possibly have the opinion they do. There is also talk about different genres etc etc. I always despise that because it becomes discussion of what a "real" game is, or the tired Metarankings get thrown about the "objectively" measure game quality.
The only reason I can think it would seem more prevalent is due to the mainstream gaming media. Most of the people belong to the old guard of games, and see the PS360 as what should be the natural evolution of the hobby. As such they criticize the Wii for functions that simply are not desired by its fanbase. This is not to say there is a great big conspiracy against the system. However, you will see articles that get slammed because their complaints simply due not resonate with the fanbase. This gets to be a "war" as it inevitably gets thrown out that the Wii fans are simply in denial, and are just blindly following Nintendo rather than trying to have an open dialogue and see things from a different perspective.
