Jay520 said:
My question would be why don't you like other video game companies? I presume it's because you believe they lack good games, correct? In which case, it wouldn't make sense to want the companies to not get good games, because not getting good games is the reason you don't like the companies. You have a problem with something, but you don't want the solution to surface. You want the problem to persist. That's like me disliking a TV Show because it's unrealistic. But at the same time, I actively oppose the idea of the Show becoming more realistic. It makes no sense whatsoever. |
Your analysis is good, but your premise was already wrong. It's not because they don't have good games (that just happens incidentally to be true, :P). I dislike MS and Sony for reasons quite specific to them - the fact that they aren't actually gaming companies and have other priorities - and this makes them, to me, an evil, outside force in the industry, so to speak. Their presence in the industry and their being supported by good games only hurts the industry, in my opinion. Also, I just dislike their hardware as well; it's too expensive and unreliable. This means that their problems persist even if they get good games and their getting good games doesn't really fix anything - it only increases the popularity of their hardware and the popularity of this problem in the industry.
Mind you, this is just an example of "justified" fanboyism. I'm sure lots of people have similar arguments against Nintendo or for whichever hardware company they support, making their arguments coherent, even if I disagree. I mean, I'm sure lots of people hate Nintendo for having low-end graphics and promoting kiddie games and think that Nintendo will force everyone to make kiddie games with crappy graphics if third parties support them. I think it's a bad argument for various reasons, but there's nothing inherently wrong with it.
“These are my principles; if you don’t like them, I have others.” – Groucho Marx
