Nintendo, the scapegoat of the industry

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bunchanumbers said:

noname2200 said:
A scapegoat is something you pin all your sins on and then cast away so you can feel better about yourself. I don't think that accurately describes what happens. Perhaps you mean that kid in elementary school who doesn't really make much effort to fit in, so all the insecure children pick on him/her?

Actually I'm thinking really a scapegoat. There are gamers who bash on Nintendo to justify their own gaming. 'Yeah I play Fifa and CoD but I play hardcore adult mature games with mature adult stories and mature adult gore and graffics. I'm not some kiddy Nintendo cartoon game manchild.' Those guys actually really are pinning their sin, which is loving gaming, which in the eyes of greater society is still met with stigma and pinning it on Nintendo.

The opposite also happens with self-proclaimed "hardcore gamers," undermining the claim that this behavior is unique to non-Nintendo fans.