Why are the new console wars viewed with such negativity?

[NightDragon83]

MohammadBadir said:

NightDragon83 said:

Ronster316 said:

Preferred the SEGA Megadrive to the Super Nintendo Entertianment System. (SEGA did exceptionally well in europe in the early 90's, so it was nowhere near as one sided as some other areas)

I had (and still have) an immense amount of respect for Nintendo though, and did not begrudge or belittle anyone who had either system.

That all changed of course when a certain "moneybags corporation" wriggled their way in to the gaming business.

$ony?

some guy on this site had a signature asking why doesn't anybody use the dollar sign for "$ony" like they do with M$, then saying that he remembered Sony don't have any money so it wouldn't fit XD

We were talking about back in the mid-90's when Sony actually had money, and Nintendo and SEGA were busy duking it out when Sony swooped in under the radar and capitalized on the opening left by Nintendo and SEGA's mistakes.

Today, my sig (which was originally stated by another member on here) holds very true, and it's both funny and ironic watching Sony fans attack Microsoft for being a greedy evil corporation that has tons of money to blow on their game console when Sony was doing just that from the late 90s on through most of the '00s.