the_dengle said:
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 is 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 need to go around making other companies look bad in order for your own company to look good. You're creating some sort of false survival-of-the-fittest scenario.
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I think it goes both ways. Yankees fans are going to vigorously root against the Red Sox even when the two teams aren't playing each other and the Sox are so far behind in the standings that their performance is irrelevant to the Yankee's success. On the other hand, there are plenty of gamers who "root" for one company without really rooting "against" another, which you can also do in sports. You don't necessarily want the other team to play poorly -- you just want your team to play better. |
I understand rooting for only one team. I can understand wanting a company to do better. The idea I'm against is the rooting for one console / company to do poorly. There is no need to have that mentality like sports.
