| garywood said: Why the constant forming of teams? This just didn't exist about 10 years ago. As I think one of the micrsoft bosses said a few days ago, there's a lot of poison we need to remove from this industry. Stock making imaginary tribes. Stop declaring your allegiance to a game or console that you haven't even played yet. Gamers are so easily turning into brainless sheep that the big 3 can just manipulate with marketing. Don't have any allegiances. Be ready to change your mind tomorrow about what console to buy if something new happens. That's a far better attitude that will lead to a far healthier industry. Either that or another decade of shooter after shooter. |
I agree with what you're saying. However, I feel obligated to point out that you might not have been around for the 16-bit generation then. Because back then, there were most definitely hardline "teams" of Nintendo fans and Sega fans, many of which would not be caught dead playing the other console because it was "crap". I was a Nintendo kid, and I hated hearing Sega kids talk shit about my system and saying how theirs was better, but I still played Sega and TG16 and arcade and PC games all the time too. I've always liked Nintendo best, but I like good games that appeal to me wherever they are. Which is why I've owned a PS2 and PS3 in recent gens.
But yeah, things were pretty volatile between the Sega and Nintendo camps back in the day. And don't even get me started when the PSX came along....
