| Nyleveia said: For the very same reasons Nintendo fans of old wanted Sega to fail, only back then it was more vicious and Nintendo fans wouldn't be caught dead buying Sonic. Now nintendo fans like buying Sonic - If/when Nintendo folds and goes third party, gamers on other platforms will buy Mario, it's as simple as that, but if you want the long and short of it, here it is. Many Sony and Microsoft gamers would play Mario and other Nintendo games, they just don't want to buy a Nintendo console to do it. |
REALLY now. I was one of the few people In my circle to own a SNES; most people I knew had Master Systems and Mega Drives. But despite being a SNES owner, I also had a Game Gear. I would often swap a system with all my games with friends for a week, just so that each of us could experience the things we missed, on the cheap. I got to play a plethora of GameBoy, Mega Drive, Amiga and Commodore 64 titles that I would otherwise not have even KNOWN about, and I hope that my friends also enjoyed what the SNES, Game Gear, Atari ST and BBC Micro had to offer (because I also had those latter two obscure things).
I think that the people whom you mention in your example are the vocal minority, which unfortunately highlights an aspect of human nature that endures to this day.
WHERE IS MY KORORINPA 3
