Is organizing forums around console or console maker the best way?

[Mr Khan]

richardhutnik said:

Mr Khan said:

Hence why general gaming forums can address games like GTAIV or Call of Duty or what have you, but organizing by console still makes the most sense because it is prohibitively difficult to sell games on one platform, even from a genre you favor, to owners of another console, unless that game is so incredibly compelling as to convince you to purchase that platform. For instance, i love platformers, but can't really talk about LittleBigPlanet2 in depth because i lack a PS3, and don't particularly care for one. Similarly FPS fans in general aren't going to care to discuss Conduit 2, as many of them likely game on PC/PS3/360

Take Black Ops, as an example.  It has had more sales than any single system exclusive, across the platforms it has been released on.  If you had a place based arounf FPS, then you could end up discussing Black Ops and comparing it to other games in the FPS genre.  Also, there IS the case of people who do own more than one platform, and are looking for games that are good in a given genre.

Also, consider this thread a general observation questioning why things are clustered the way they are across the Internet.

Right, but i'm saying games like that would naturally dominate discourse in a general Gaming Discussion forum, but then you could go over to Nintendo discussion to talk about Conduit 2.