I think people like these have been around the whole time.
Used to be, ten years ago, that most of the vocal online gamers would take a dump on Nintendo because of the N64 and GameCube, even if they played everything else and wasn't committed to a single platform.
Now the field's just been evened out a little more, and everyone's had both good and bad experiences with all the console makers.
The word fanboy is hardly useful as a description of the average gamer who just happens to carry a grudge.







