| Sempuukyaku said: I agree with everything about your post except this one little part. I actually feel that a lot of criticism is actually coming from the new guard....people who started gaming with the PS2 and Xbox...and possibly the PS1. Half of the old guard are people who started on Atari and went straight to Sega..they never liked Nintendo anyway. The other half are people who started on Atari and grew with the NES and SNES. Most of them (like me) are still Nintendo fans to this day. |
This is mostly just a terminology issue. By old guard I mean people who were content with the direction the video game industry was going before the DS released. This cannot be rigidly defined by age. I would agree a lot of the Nintendo specific backlash on forums and the like come from people who have only ever known the Sony dominated era. The same was true when the Playstation first hit the market though, and the demographic of gaming started changing. Video game enthusiasts seem to resent any shift to include a wider audience.
