Usually I find these things to be rather annoying from all sides. I like Nintendo's games and their systems, they just fit me well as I often play with friends and my girlfriend but I get why other people like other games. I hate it when people try to tell each other how stupid they are for owning a certain gaming system, though. It's just mind boggling, really. Someone bought a product and thus has to be stupid. I don't get that attitude.
What really got on my nerves, though, was the huge amount of actual missinformation regarding the 3DS. No eShop, bad online system, the battery life, the system causing sickness, etc. I was really thinking about not buying the system at all. And while I'm 90% sure there won't be any severe shortages at launch in Europe I would've possibly had to get the system later for more money (!) just because some people had fun spouting wrong information. It's the opposite of what happened when I bought my Macbook Pro when there were Apple fans all over the place praising their product over the top.
I think treating wrong information as facts just because you don't like a company (or like it too much for that matter) is where things get serious. It doesn't affect myself but there are people out there who are not a member of a gaming forum. And they just want to find some factual information about their potential purchase online and, frankly, gaming forums seem like a good place to get information about gaming hardware.
And people who need to spout missinformation just because they dislike the company behind a product should really get their head checked. Really.
