| enrageorange said:Xbox has the fewest amount of fanboys of the big three. Probably due to being a relatively new brand, and because a very large portion 360 owners are former ps2 owners so there is little brand loyalty. |
I disagree with you. I don't see the Xbox 360 having any fewer fanboys. Rather, that the fanboys are worse for other consoles is a perception created by most gamers on western websites being Xbox 360 users.
I'll give you an example of what I mean. At a gaming site I used to frequent, there were two extremely vocal and obvious fanboys. One was a PS3 fanboy, one was an especially vicious Xbox fanboy. As a western site, the Xbox fans in general (not fanboys) outnumbered the PS3 fans by a good margin. The situation that was created by this was that anything the PS3 fanboy said would be attacked by many, many more people. Most of the Xbox fans would just ignore the Xbox fanboy. However, if a fanboy war developed, these normal fans would attack anything that the PS3 fanboys said in retaliation to the Xbox fanboy. In effect, though they'd never admit it, they were ultimately siding with the Xbox fanboy, though in an indirect manner. Thus we always get this false perception that "the other side" has more and worse fanboys because the majority is able to impose their view as reality.
I also think that how "bad" fanboys are depends on how defensive their situation. If they feel like they're "losing", then they'll be more aggressive, kind of like a cornered animal. I came to this conclusion when I was thinking about what I consider the worst fanboys of all time:
Xbox -- "XBOX is more powerful than the ps2, Halo ownz lol" This was when Xbox fanboys were trying to sway people away from Sony.
PS3 -- "It's WORTH $500" Yeah, justifications.
Wii -- "IT DOES HAVE GAMES FSDJFLSJD!!11 [posts chart filled with music and sport titles]" When someone so much as hinted that they might not buy a Wii.
I just don't buy it when someone tells me that one side doesn't have fanboys. I see them all over the place for ALL the systems.
