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Jay520 said: Fans of gaming are nothing like fans of sports. The entire purpose of sports is to have one particular team be victorious. And in sports, a team's victory is entirely dependent upon another team's loss. It's not possible for two teams to win in the same competition. Therefore, it would be pretty difficult for a person to root for two different teams when competiting. If you identify yourself as an X fan, you're going to inherently want the Y team to fail as they could prevent X team from maximum success. The opposite is true for gaming fans, at least most of us. It is quite possible for multiple companies in the gaming industries to be successful. There does not need to be a loser to allow for another company's success. The problem is your definition of success, which you believe to doing-better-than-the-other-company. Most people are not glued to one 'side' like you are, they just enjoy seeing success, in quality and sales, from all companies. In order for one console to succeed, the other console does not need to lose or fail. I think it's sad that you feel your preffered company can only succeed if another fails. That is simply not true. This isn't sports. |
Then again games will always exist no matter. Even if a manufacturer loses the idea is that they will still exist as a 3rd party. Also, the loss of one doesn't necessarily mean things will get worse. For example, with the PS3, Sony was struggling yet in my opinion the PS3 is where Sony released its best exclusives.
Many will say the GC and the DC were some of the best consoles ever made, yet both failed at critical appeal.
That's why I disagree with the bottom line of your post.
