Arguments used to be more about sales in the past. You had the crazy Nintendo group claiming the Wii would sell 250m units (Jon Lucas, anyone?) and the crazy Sony / Microsoft fans going "the Wii is just a fad!" To prove their point people used to post sales numbers, analyst interviews and historical data.
Today things have simply gotten out of hand. For one thing everyone feels like a loser: Wii U and Vita are selling horribly and it looks like Microsoft is screwing up to a lot of people as well. Also there used to be the clear notion that the gaming market is *predictable*. After the Wii dropped off a sales cliff, PS3 / 360 not selling all too hot either and 8th gen consoles underperforming people feel this has become unpredictable: Who would get into a huge argument, including historical sales data, to prove X console will win 8th gen when the last generation clearly showed things can change dramatically over the course of a couple years? Therefore people focus their efforts on *personal* tastes and that's always a great recipe for disaster, especially among youngsters, as they tend to take other opinions as a personal attack.
To give a short example: Some years ago if you talked about Blue Ocean Strategy or disruption people would try to prove why X console was not disruptive or blue ocean and therefore prove your argument wrong. Today people don't get what you're even talking about and answer with personal attacks ("you have no idea about anything" etc).
(I'm not trying to point out specific users btw. Just my general impression which you are free to disagree on.)
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