| Ganoncrotch said: So you think that a websites peak time to be about console wars was the 90s? at the middle of which there was around 44m people with internet access of any kind? the number grew from 2010 > 2016 by 32x the number of people using the net in 1995 which was the death of the generation when you think the "console wars" had it's peak. Now obviously there was kids in playgrounds arguing how much cooler sonic was to mario... but that mostly lived and died in a school playground, from the ages of 12-15, adults didn't talk and argue about video games much in that era because there wasn't a means to have an adult conversation about gaming and brands for the majority of the world, so while console wars as a thing existed in the 90s it was actually a tiny portion of the population talking about it as a whole. |
The fervor of brand loyalty and the console wars (eg. backing your preferred company) definitely peaked in the SNES and Genesis era. In those days, it was basically heresy for a Sega kid to own an SNES. I have no doubt that gaming has far more mainstream reach today but consoles are becoming like a commodity where they are almost clones of each other with the same games, basically timed exclusives being the big difference.
VGChartz core concept lies in the idea of brand loyalty: it's what makes the debates on these threads so much fun. It just amazes me that hardware sales is conceptually similar enough to what we had in the 90's to still have a site based around this idea.
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