Why are there more PS3 fans on the internet than any other, but...

[FinalEvangelion]

Lostplanet22 said:

RolStoppable said:

NYANKS said:

FinalEvangelion said:

At the beginning of the generation, PS3 fans were criticized everywhere they went for their console choice IRL.  Even going into Gamestop to buy a PS3 game in 2007, the employees would question my console choice.  "Xbox 360 is getting Halo 3, why don't you like it?"

As a result, people needed to vent on the internet.

 

We can even look at the history of this site.  At the beginning it was overwhelmingly Nintendo fanboys.  Most just freely attacked / trolled the PS3 and were even encouraged to do it by the mods at the time (FishyJoe, Shams, etc.).  Sony fans would almost be banned just for saying positive things about the PS3 while Nintendo fans (aka Gballzack) would get away with murder for a long time.  Eventually, the Sony fanboys started arriving to defend themselves and now there are more Sony fanboys than Nintendo fanboys on this site.

I think that's why MS fanboys never showed up here in numbers.  They were never caught in the fire as much.  At the beginning of the generation, there was more of the non-aggression pact between the 360 and Wii fans (aka Wii60.).

 

Sony fanboys had two fronts to fight (Nintendo and Microsoft) while Microsoft and Nintendo fanboys were mostly focused on Sony and not each other.  I guess it was because the underdogs uniting from last generation.  At least thats how it worked in Fanboy culture.  I was always more pro Nintendo and Sony and not so much MS.

 

To this day, in raw membership this site is more pro Sony, but in power structure - it is more pro Nintendo.  People that run this site are more pro Nintendo, I think.

I like this, sums it up prety well lol.  I remember Fishyjoe.......ugh.

FishyJoe wasn't all that bad and certainly not worse than ckmlb who was a mod before him.

 

Nah, ckmlb just made a lot of insane threads, and he banned people easy when you were in a discussion with him and he was losing;.  In the end almost everyone knew that he made not much sense even a big part of the Sony fans did not liked him except a few of the typical suspects  Leo-J, Crazzyman,'Onna76' and a few others....

FishyJoe was from an other caliber he could say things that  would make some fans furious.. ' Sony has lost that much money?  Lucky I did not spend money on a PS3, I wonder when they will take the PS3 of the market'. or  ' So the PS3 is selling less than 10k a week in Japan, while the Wii is doing 25k, DQ X is announced for the Wii;.it is pretty clear Japanese devs don't trust the PS3 anymore with so many J-games being multiplatform it looks like it is over for PS3 especially when you know the PS3 is selling worse than the Gamecube in USA and getting a beating every week from the GBA.., software wise Ps3 is doing even worse with only 5 million sellers in its first year, developpers going bankrupt because they made an exclusive game on the PS3 (Remember Haze). And oh let's not forget that the Porn industry is going to support HD-DVD...Bye bye blu Ray...   only a fool would believe sony is going to be alirght in the end...' 

With that all said no wonder FishyJoe became bitter when PS3 got more and more announcements of new games, when HD-DVD was over and the PS3 sales were picking up and soon was going to surpass the GC worldwide..

It is a pity we can not read the comments made on the Weekly sales charts...Great times;.


Edit: when reading this I miss the old days somehow;..

I think many of the members who were here with the intent of having "front row seats" to watch the doom of the PlayStation division are not around anymore.  It seems many left right around the time the Slim came out and set the charts on fire.  Here we are now with that console as the #1 7th generation machine and home console.