windbane on 03 May 2008
| Onimusha12 said: I don't mind people owning multiple consoles or a single console. The only thing I don't like are others who try to accost others for deciding to just stick with one console. This doesn't seem so comon at the moment but I do have a possible theory as to why such hostility could exist. This backlash seems to be the result of a number of people who sided with just one console at the beginning of this generation expecting another PS2 to emerge and when they reluctantly realized such would not occur, they had to reluctantly settle on a second console (or all three). To make peace with this compromise of principle, many most likely forced the rationalization into their head that it only makes sense to own multiple consoles and felt the need to uphold this standard of reason. Naturally, those who chose to stick with just one console, threaten this and any speak of one console dominating the others became an issue of bitterness for them. Mind you, this is only a theory and dangerously borderline victimization complex fodder, so I won't claim there is any great merrit to it. Though you will notice the sheer number of people who sided with just one console at the beginning of this generation has shrunk to barely any. |
Yeah, I can't say that theory has much validity because I think it's clear that no console will dominate this generation. I know a lot of people still think that will happen, though... I do find it hard to play everything I want, but missing out on so many great games from all 3 consoles is hard to do as a videogame fan.
